RE: [exim] Debian as a 'Special Case' for Exim

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Author: Greg Folkert
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To: EximUser List
Subject: RE: [exim] Debian as a 'Special Case' for Exim
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:04 -0500, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > -----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.


Yep... okay, Worthless. update-exim4.conf produces a new config for you
to test. Just *NOT* where you >traditionally< look for it.

Have you even read the docs from Debian on the subject? The Split
configuration is ordered exact the way it should be followin' an
ascending order.

See, elsewhere for my request.

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