On 11-06-13 18:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Sendmail has just one more layer of indirection by virtue of the m4 >> macros. Postfix has most of its behavior hard coded in the C sources, >> while exim's behavior can be controlled by run-time configuration if >> an advanced user wants to do things that Debian's abstraction layer >> was not designed to handle. > > There are a class of users between beginner and exim expert for which the > current state of affairs is not optimal. I don't know how big that class > is but I've been in it for ten years.
To this exim expert, configuring exim is done as follows: zcat /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples/example.conf.gz > /etc/exim4/exim4.conf $EDITOR /etc/exim4/exim4.conf the comments in that file are pretty self-explanatory, and the example configuration is a good default in that it is a functional one for local mail (possibly received through SMTP) while not being an open relay. (this is not meant as criticism for the exim4-config stuff. I understand and agree there's a need for this kind of thing for people who don't need a lot of complex stuff; it just doesn't work for me, that's all) -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b80e71.6050...@debian.org