Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:08:08 +0200, Renaud Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If a Debian user uses a hand made exim4.conf, isn't it supported by >official exim mailing lists instead of specific debian ones? In theory, yes. In practice the exim-users community tends to send people to pkg-exim4-use

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:29:11 +0100, Keith Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My point is that, for all but simple cases, you need to understand how >Exim works to use the exim4-config mechanism effectively, yes. The Debian configuration only caters for about 90 % of users. I think that's pretty g

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:37:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What do you suggest doing better? At the risk of starting a long, protracted argument that is probably inappropriate on this list, I'd stop trying to be all things to all men. Exim is probably the most configurable MTA around (at least

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:00:24 +0100, Keith Edmunds > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You might also want to scrap the Debian configuration altogether. I have >> the utmost respect for Debian, but what they've done to the Exim package >> in terms of configuration is make it very c

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:00:24 +0100, Keith Edmunds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might also want to scrap the Debian configuration altogether. I have >the utmost respect for Debian, but what they've done to the Exim package >in terms of configuration is make it very complex and very hard to >under

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:15:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. You might also want to scrap the Debian configuration altogether. I have the utmost respect for Debian, but what they've done to the Exim package in terms of configuration is make it

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Jeremiah" == Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremiah> If I might suggest that there be more than one short Jeremiah> line on where the problem is in exim's new configuration Jeremiah> and not just a long line chastising users for not Jeremiah> reading the docum

Re: [exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 12/10/2007, Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your problem appears to be with the Debian Exim package, not with Exim itself. You need to report it to the package maintainers, not to the Exim project. Your Debian documentation tells you how to do that. -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL

[exim] Poor documentation on upgrade

2007-10-12 Thread Jeremiah Foster
If I might suggest that there be more than one short line on where the problem is in exim's new configuration and not just a long line chastising users for not reading the documentation: DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.