Bug#263530: exim4: Configuration is far too obscure!

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:29:36AM +0100, Greg Kochanski wrote:
> The configuration for exim4 is too obscure and fragile.
> Some debian update happened on Aug 1, and some of my mail
> was redirected from maildir_home to mail_spool,
> silently accumulating there for two weeks!

You probably have replaced some of your config files with new versions
from the package, which might have caused the problem.

> Yes, an ideal sysadmin would have noticed,
> but it's really not suitable for any
> configuration that is
> (a) nonstandard and (b) lacking a full-time administrator.

Well, other people would like exim to be even more debconf driven,
while you are complaining that there are too many automatisms. I can't
see how a package can satisfy everybody.

Greetings
Marc

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