Re: [exim] exim4, gmail and 550-5.7.1

On 2015-12-13 09:42 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

>> Maybe, as a first step, you could move from the Debian configuration
>> infrastructure for exim to a hand edited configuration file.

> Why would one want to do that?

In this particular situation, because most and perhaps all answers the
OP will get on this list will refer to the bare example configuration.
For another reason, see below.

> Please consider not dismissing Debian's work on exim as "unuseable
> rubbish" just because you don't understand it. That's horribly
> impolite to do even if doing it not right in front of the people who
> have done a considerable part of the work of packaging Exim for
> Debian.

I have not said the words you stick into my mouth, at all. I appreciate
the Debian infrastructure very much, and I used it myself for a long
time. I finally left it for a rather specific reason: I want to keep
all my configuration in version control and share it among my
heterogeneous set of hosts. That is harder to do when the information is
spread in many files, and some of it comes from debconf answers.

I hope this clears things up.

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