Re: [exim] Confusing config format

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Author: jpff
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To: plot.lost
CC: <exim-users@exim.org>
Subject: Re: [exim] Confusing config format
In my Debian system I installed from aptitude, and then just built my own
exim with a configuration file based on examples and the one we run on
SuSE. Never sa the point of the explosion, and as exim is
mission-critical I update myself fro sources.


On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, plot.lost wrote:

> Hi all, I've recently had to look into an Exim4 configuration on an Ubuntu
> system, which was installed using the apt-get method.
>
> This seems to have the config split over a large number of small files, in
> many different directories.
>
> There seems to be one file called update-exim4.conf.conf, and then a conf.d
> directory will all the other bits in.
>
> How can I convert this into a single (normal!) config file? The other systems
> I use are where exim has been manually compiled and installed have a nice
> simple, single, config file. This 'exploded' config just seems (to me,
> anyway) a massively complicated way of doing things, with a much greater risk
> of something somewhere going wrong.
>
> The config files have things like 'domainlist local_domains =
> MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS' and 'relay_from_hosts = MAIN_RELAY_NETS' in them, yet I
> can't find where MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS or MAIN_RELAY_NETS is defined. there is
> an exntry of dc_relay_nets='[ip]' in update-exim4.conf.conf, but I don't see
> how this is converted into the MAIN_RELAY_NETS part.
>
> Please tell me there is way to stop this madness and get back to a single
> config file!
>
>
>
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