On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:38:28 +0100, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> To this exim expert, configuring exim is done as follows:
>> 
>> zcat /usr/share/doc/exim4/examples/example.conf.gz > /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
>
>Absolutely. At some point in the last few years I was recommended this course
>of action by a friend in the Debian community and it has greatly improved my
>experiences. I got the impression that this is quite commonly done.

It is common with people who prefer to configure exim in the
traditional way. This is perfectly OK if you know what you're doing.

I violently object to people recommending this to novices.

Greetings
Marc
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