On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 23:40:39 +0000, Steven Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:10:59AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 22:57:01 +0000, Steven Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >don't try and decipher >> >/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, that way leads to madness. >> >> I violently disagree here. We didn't spend days to make >> exim4.conf.template as confusing as possible, we tried _really_ hard >> to make it work. > >It does work, and very clever it is too. As an exercise in cleverness it >is second to none.
I again violently disagree. You haven't seen Tony's configuration in use on cam.ac.uk's hermes system, right? >But if I want to learn how to configure an Exim mail server I need to work >on an exim.conf file that I can use on any Exim installation so I expand >the example exim.conf and use that. Once I've renamed it to exim4.conf of >course. Short of some easy, textual replacements, Debian's exim4.conf.template can work on any exim system. I agree that the upstream example.conf is better if you want to _learn_ exim. To Debian users, I recommend learning on upstream's example.conf and then transferring the knowledge to our configuration. 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/
