Re: [exim] exim command to dump config after macro expansion

On 2015-07-03 14:04 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

> Thank you - it is good to have a recommended "golden" config.

Note that the infamous Debian "split config" scheme is _not_ mandatory.
At installation time, or at any later time when running
dpkg-reconfigure, you can answer "no" to "split configuration into small
files". In that case, the macros are still expanded, but the source is
a single file, namely /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.

In either case you can see the resulting signle configuration file
(ie. the one exim actually reads at runtime) at
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

Also, the Debian specific macros (that is, the settings from debconf, in
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, and conditionals based on them) are
hardly the main reason for the complexity. Mostly it is Debian being
Debian and trying to cater for any concievable use case. So I wouldn't
say that the Debian configuration is somehow "less powerful" than the
golden one, quite the contrary. To be sure, it does have the
disadvantage that most people on this list are unfamiliar with it.

Lastly Tim, your MUA (Thunderbird?) seems to mess up threading for you -
your messages appear as replies to your OP, rather than correctly as
replies to Heiko. Can you please fix that? Thanks.

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