On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:56:03PM +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> P? fr , 25/04/2003 klokka 10:03, skreiv Nico Erfurth:
>
> > Maybe someone should start an exim-tools page with links to all known
> > available exim tools and pages.
>
> Yes, yes, yes.
>
> Anyone who says that web-based or GUI-based tools for Exim aren't viable
> because of Exim's complexity, remind me of Little Lord Fauntleroy's
> grumpy, gouty-footed old granddad (Those who've never read the American
> Frances Hodgson Burnett's brilliant, introvert, century-old novel can
> turn to
> http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy/or any other of the 28,403 Internet refs listed on Alltheweb).
>
> Many ISPs already have limited Perl or PHP front ends to configure Exim
> - amongst others contributors to this list (reading, Hub?). If at least
> basic Exim 4 configs could be done with web interfaces (I personally
> find Webmin disgusting, but that's my opinion), then Exim would take
> such flight as defies imagination.
The settings that people would want to most update in such a situation
are (taken from an exim4 config):
local_domains, relay_to_domains, relay_from_hosts, and the information
for each user.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no reason this cannot be maintained
from a web interface. For the most part.
Things like hupping exim, and making maildirs for users may or may not
need to be done on the system, depending on how the system is
configured.
suexec also makes lots of things possible.
Maybe a nice project could come out of this.
