On 2015-12-13 20:58 +0000, Jasen Betts wrote: > it's not that hard to work within the debian confug tree you just > need to read the debian specific documentation first.
As I noted in the other subthread, I am quite familiar with the Debian way. > The reason behind this config splitting is so that debian can offer > seamless ingeration with other mail processing packages like > spamassassin and clamav using connector packages that drop additional > config files into the config tree to activate the integration. When I hear the words "seamless integration" I reach for my ... anti-gnome spray, to keep it nonviolent :-) > One big advantage of split config is that when exim is upgraded by > debian your changes will persist while the stock config files are > updated. saving you from crawling through a 2000 line config file. > duplicating all the edits. How so? When I keep my own exim4.conf, it is _never_ touched by upgrades, simply because the package doesn't contain the file at all. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. -- ## 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/
