Greg Folkert wrote:
Here is just a few options I am supporting currently available:
Sounds nice :) You must have spent tremendous amounts of time into
developing such a thing.
If you
see the beauty of the seperate files for what it is intended to do, its
like magically everything comes into view.
Hm, I don't see it with exim-config. What I see is only a mess of files
and two large, unreadable files (template and config), which keep me
from setting up Exim4.
I use it so I don't have to worry about multiple access to hyarge config
file. I can manipulate each file (based on a naming scheme and service
level) without worry if those changes would get on multiple simultaneous
commits, where last one to write wins.
But you do never know what's actually configured and if it is set up the
way you wanted it.
Well, I guess you have a point, but if you make an attempt understand
why Debian really chooses to do this like this it makes a ton of sense,
when you look at thing from an "Easily adding and removing components,
without screwing everything else up" point of view.
Flexibility wasn't the demand, but efficiently setting things up in the
way they should work was. I could have spent months on finding out how
exim-config is supposed to be used to achieve the setup I wanted and
spent even more time on developing some system that would allow me to
know what's going on. But that won't have been efficient.
Also, allows me to find and fix individual domain problems (should they
arise) and fix them plus add in the syntax for checking that problem for
the system. Sort of like what Jalopy does for CVS.
It is much easier to have one human readable configuration file that a
mess of unreadable files with dubious interrelationships to check when
problems arise.
Yes, it comes down to someone understanding what needs to be done and
how to do it. If I were you, there is a big lesson to be learned.
Learning to do things in Multiple ways (sometimes 50 different ways) is
a good thing. Locking yourself into a Straight and Narrow is a sure path
to being obsoleted.
If my life were mabye 1000 times longer and time not an issue at all, I
could do that. As things are, it will end soon because of a lack of
medication.
GH
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