Re: [Exim] Request for config modularity (Probably Wishlist …

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Szerző: Frank S. Bernhardt
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Címzett: Kevin Reed
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Request for config modularity (Probably Wishlist Material)

Kevin Reed wrote:
> Greg Folkert said:
>
>>--
>>I am an admittedly huge zealot for the Debian way of doing things...
>>
>>But, don't let that cloud you judgment here.
>>
>>I am using exim v4.30 with exiscan compiled in (exim4-daemon-heavy) from
>>the debian repositories. Recently Andreas Metzler and Marc Haber made a
>>truly remarkable change to the way the Exim Config is handled in Debian.
>>
>>Instead of having one huge monolithic config file, with which I
>>sometimes get corn-fused as to exactly where I am in the file, I have a
>>"conf.d" directory with more directories such as:
>>
>>acl, auth, main, retry, rewrite, router, transport
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>
> Yuck
>
> Hopefully not... It is way to easy to search around a single file where
> everything is located to make changes. For me anyway.
>
> For a really complex site, I can see moving that direction as the number
> of rules etc increase, but for learning a system like this which already
> can be tough since you are normally replacing something that has to be
> working out of the chute why add all that complexity.
>
> MOHO...
>
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> Kevin W. Reed - TNET Services, Inc.
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You can split the configuration into multiple files and then include
them into the main configuration file. See page 53 of the book "4.3.4
Including other files in the configuration".


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