On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:38:23 +0100, Renaud Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It should be noted that exim4 on debian supports the one large conf >file. If you put any valid exim configuration file in >/etc/exim4/exim4.conf debian exim will use it as its configuration file.
Yes, but that is not adviseable for a newbie. Please do not recommend this to somebody who is not clearly experienced with exim. >The large config format the only way I ever used to configure exim on >debian systems, and this way should be supported by exim mailing list as >it's the same as the "regular" way of doing config (except for config >file place and name). Agreed. As soon as there is an /etc/exim4/exim4.conf, Debian support ceases, and the user's system is a plain exim modulo some paths. So, these people should get support here. >Also for people who tell exim3 is still shipped by debian, it will only >be shipped by debian if you upgrade from an old debian which used exim3 >to a new one. exim 3 is still _SHIPPED_ by Debian, but only installed when upgrading from an older version of the distribution. New stable installs done later than June 2005 have exim4. > So it's probably better to tell them to *fully* upgrade >their installation by running "apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy". >There is a debian script which will try to convert old exim3 configs to >new exim4 configs when you do the upgrade (better try before prod :)). I am now quoting from http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/README/README.Debian.html#id224542: <quote> If you use exim4-config from Debian, you'll get the debconf based configuration scheme that is intended to cover the majority of cases. If exim4-config is installed while an exim 3 package is present on the system, exim4-config tries to parse the exim 3 config file to determine the answers that were given to eximconfig on exim 3 installation. These answers are then taken as default values for the debconf based configuration process. Be warned! eximconfig from the exim 3 packages doesn't record the explicit answers given on exim 3 configuration. So we have to guess the answers from the exim 3 configuration file /etc/exim/exim.conf, which is bound to fail if the config file has been modified after using eximconfig. This is the reason why we refrained from doing a "silent update", but only use the guessed answers to get reasonable defaults for our debconf based configuration process. Please note that we do not use the exim_convert4r4 script, but try to configure the exim 4 package in the same way exim 3 was. This will hopefully aid future updates. If you have used a customized exim 3 configuration, you can of course use exim_convert4r4, and install the resulting file as /etc/exim4/exim4.conf after careful inspection. exim4 will then use that file and ignore the file that it generated from the debconf configuration. To aid future updates, we do, however, encourage you not to use the exim_convert4r4-generated file verbatim but instead drop appropriate configuration snippets in their appropriate place in /etc/exim4/conf.d. </quote> >The exim4 package is far less messed up by debian than the apache2 package. Thanks for the compliments. Actually, I like the way that Debian has packaged apache2 as it is flexible, easy to use and has great potential for automating things. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
