On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:00:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:40:39 +0000, Steven Wayne <swayne@???>
> wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:10:59AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:57:01 +0000, Steven Wayne <swayne@???>
> >> wrote:
> >> >don't try and decipher
> >> >/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, that way leads to madness.
> >>
> >> I violently disagree here. We didn't spend days to make
> >> exim4.conf.template as confusing as possible, we tried _really_ hard
> >> to make it work.
> >
> >It does work, and very clever it is too. As an exercise in cleverness it
> >is second to none.
>
> I again violently disagree. You haven't seen Tony's configuration in
> use on cam.ac.uk's hermes system, right?
No I haven't and am willing to agree that Tony's cleverer than you.
> >But if I want to learn how to configure an Exim mail server I need to work
> >on an exim.conf file that I can use on any Exim installation so I expand
> >the example exim.conf and use that. Once I've renamed it to exim4.conf of
> >course.
>
> Short of some easy, textual replacements, Debian's exim4.conf.template
> can work on any exim system.
Really. But without debconf why would anyone do that? The standard
exim.conf is much easier, particularly if you've bought the Exim4 book.
> I agree that the upstream example.conf is better if you want to
> _learn_ exim. To Debian users, I recommend learning on upstream's
> example.conf and then transferring the knowledge to our configuration.
As much fun as this is, I've actually forgotten what the OP actually asked
for now.
To save us both being put in everyones killfile if you want to carry on
then email me privately
Steven.
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