What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file into parts and when exim4 is (re)started a new config file is built from all the parts, tested that it's valid and then exim4 is started with the new config.
The file that is written is stripped of comments. I guess that's good as it's a smaller config file for exim to process, but then it's missing comments. But the generated file (/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated) is not for human consumption. The exim4 package does not require one to use this system -- you can create /etc/exim4/exim4.conf and bypass exim4-config setup. At first this new system seemed really great. For example, to support mailmain I created three files: conf.d/main/01_local_mailman_macros conf.d/router/350_local_listdirector conf.d/transport/30_local_mailmain Which seems somewhat cool in that maybe in the future when you install mailman those files are automatically added when the mailman package is installed. But as I was working with setting up exim I found myself running: update-exim4.conf --output test.conf then running exim4 -S test.conf, editing test.conf, and repeating. I just found it easier to edit one file, write it and run exim4 -C while testing than working with the update-exim4.conf for each change. But then it was somewhat of a pain to remember to copy my changes to test.conf to each individual file in the conf.d directory. I also spent a lot of time editing the conf.d/acl files. There I found it harder to add separate files for a specific ACL test and had to edit existing files (e.g. 30_exim4-config_check_rcpt), which makes me worry that someday on an dist-upgrade I'll overwrite my additions/changes. Perhaps I'm not understanding the design goals behind exim4-config. Anyone else have comments about exim4-config? One other issues with exim4-config is that it conflicts with exim: it provides etc/email-addresses (so does exim). Maybe I'm understanding things wrong, but if you want to upgrade to exim4 you can't download exim4-config and set up the config while exim3 is still running. I will note that the upgrade from exim3 to exim4 when easier than I expected. The Exim4 maintainer Andreas Metzler has done a fantastic job with packaging exim4 and was very helpful and responsive to my questions. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
