> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at]
> Marc Sherman's suggestion of providing an unadorned Exim configuration
> package would be greatly preferable, not just for us but for competent
> users too. My friend Ian Jackson recently tried installing
> Debian's exim4
> on his computer at work and rapidly replaced it with Smail because he
> didn't want to battle with the configuration system. Debian's
> exim4 uses
> *39* files (!), Debian's Smail uses 6, and a normal Exim installation
> would have 2 or 3 (the non-split configuration file being one
> of Exim's early improvements over Smail).
Yes, that split configuration is a nightmare. Not only is it hard to
understand, it also precludes testing a configuration before handing it off
the running daemon. That makes it worthless for production use, in my
opinion.
