Author: Jeremy Harris Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Re (2): Re (2): Configuring for non-encrypted MUA to
localhost. TLS-on-connect, exim to smarthost.
On 08/04/2023 23:35, Peter via Exim-users wrote: > (1) The man page shows option -f without explanation. How is it used?
It has no effect, though it is parsed and is not an error.
Despite the author's note on that manpage (at least in the Ubunto
online one I found) the source must have been glanced at. The actual
Exim documentation doesn't mention it.
> (2) Why split the database identifier into path and file? Why not
> just the fully qualified name? Eg.
> exim_tidydb -t 1m /var/spool/exim4/db/retry
That's not a "file", it's a hints-database name.
It lets the utility Do The Right Thing when the database
is made of multiple files, or a file with some name depending
on, but not identical to, the name of the hints-db.
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Cheers,
Jeremy
