On 13 Dec 2015 20:58:55 GMT, Jasen Betts <jasen@???> wrote:
>the only real difficulty is that syntax error messages will not give
>the address of the error but instead point to the generated file.
Right, that's an issue. Unfortunately, .include was not there at thet
time of the writing, and changing this now would mean millions of
Debconf questions on upgrade.
>The reason behind this config splitting is so that debian can offer
>seamless ingeration with other mail processing packages like
>spamassassin and clamav using connector packages that drop additional
>config files into the config tree to activate the integration.
Unfortunately, this has not become as widely used as we hoped.
>One big advantage of split config is that when exim is upgraded by
>debian your changes will persist while the stock config files are
>updated. saving you from crawling through a 2000 line config file.
>duplicating all the edits.
This is the real advantage. All my exim installations do even run with
the stock configuration snippets completely unchanged, which allows
for even more seamless upgrades. Special configuration, dedicated
file.
Greetings
Marc
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