Bug#302215: Re: exim4-config: allow update-exim4.conf to choose default name for Maildir

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:00:04PM +0200, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
> The main argument (and my motivation) for this patch is that once
> dc_localdelivery is set to maildir_home (as explained in your
> README.Debian) the 'Maildir' directory automagically shows up in users
> directories.  The goal of the patch is just to make as simple as a
> "dc_localdelivery" setup the choice for the global name for the
> Maildir (typically with '.Maildir' as suggested on the web page cited
> above).

That one is, in my opinion, not sufficient to warrant a special
debconf question for that.

> > Not everything must be configurable through debconf, dpkg-conffiles
> > exist for a reason.
> 
> Well, I have taken care not to mix up with debconf (in order not to
> trigger a new round of translations).  I have simply carefully
> followed your example with dc_localdelivery (that is not debconf
> driven either) in order to take advantage of your update-exim4.conf
> machinery.

dc_localdelivery will probably be debconfized post-sarge, and I am not
too happy about that.

Would it be acceptable for you to have an exim macro in the transport
which you could set earlier in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, or if
you're using split config in /etc/exim4/main/00_some_local_file?

Greetings
Marc

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