Autor: OpenMacNews Data: Dla: John W. Baxter CC: exim-users Temat: Re: [exim] completely disabling checks for specific options?
hi john,
>> either this makes some bit of sense, or its just that i'm suffering vestiges
>> of "noob disease".
>
> I think you asked a reasonable question.
>
> You will find that Philip works quite hard (except across major divides like
> Exim 3 to Exim 4 (and to a much lesser extent Exim 2 to Exim 3 <I don't
> recall that we *had* to change anything for 2 to 3>, and perhaps 1 to 2) to
> avoid breaking existing configurations with new versions. One still *could*
> use host_reject_connection in Exim 4, so simply removing it at Exim 4 time
> would at least have risked breaking workable configurations.
fair enuf. that consistency will, no doubt, at some point save my a__!
> Philip has occasionally let "us" (here on the list) talk him into
> breakage...usually to the regret of Philip and at least some of us here on
> the list.