Hi Marc,
Thanks for you prompt reply (and heaps more thanks for maintaining the
package in the first place).
While I respect your decision as the maintainer, and am not going to make a
big deal out of it as I'll just make the change myself, I will ask you to
reconsider for the following reasons:
1. Using dsearch in the domains_list is widespread and thus this issue
affects a lot of people
2. The code change is very simple, and is very unlikely to cause more issues
than it fixes
3. You say it's "never been supported" but exim has supported dsearch in the
domains_list for a very long time (and appears to have been broken in Debian
when dc_other_hostnames was introduced)
4. All the "exim virtual hosts" guides I found on Google use this method, so
first-timers will be confused
5. You say its "more complication", but for those that don't need it there
is no complication - they just enter hostnames as they do now.
6. For those that use it, it will be simpler than having to maintain the
list manually.
I hope you can see that the fix will
a) only take a few minutes of your time, but benefit a large number of
people
b) restore standard functionality that is supported in the upstream exim and
previous Debian versions
c) make managing virtual domains on exim server simpler without complicating
other setups
If after considering all this, you still decide not to fix the bug then I
will just have to trust your judgement.
Toby
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Haber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Toby Chamberlain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#418910: Allow dsearch in other_hostnames
While it does seem a bit convoluted - changing semi-colons to colons and
then some other character to semi-colons - I think the benefit of having
the feature far outweighs the wierdness.
I do not plan to make update-exim4.conf any more complicated to allow
something that has never been supported.
Especially not at this time where people will have to live without
this "feature" for the etch lifetime.
Sorry.
Greetings
Marc
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