On 2015-12-13, Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:11:36 -0800, Ian Zimmerman <[email protected]> >>Maybe, as a first step, you could move from the Debian configuration >>infrastructure for exim to a hand edited configuration file. > > Why would one want to do that? .... >>While it _is_ possible to achieve your goal within the Debian >>infrastructure, it involves creating or modifying files in an entire >>tree of configurations [1], which many find not "intuitive" and/or >>unfamiliar.
.... > Even if the man pages added by Debian add up to anothe 2000 lines, > Debian-specific documentation is less than 10 % of what one needs to > read and understand anyway to write a hand-crafted exim configuration. Nonetheless, it's easier for (at least some) people to understand the exim4 file than the Debian stuff. I tried to stick to the debconf mechanism when I first had my VPS, but it became just too hard to keep track of where everything was and how the variables interacted, as soon as I wanted to do non-trivial things. A single text file is much easier to find one's way about. But then I can't off-hand think of any example where distribution-specific interfaces to standard mechanisms have made my life easier rather than harder. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
