exim4 configuration problems

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:37:37PM +0000, Jan Eringa wrote:
> it was only after ripping exim4 out & re-installing it that I noticed
> the installer mention the exim4.conf.template file as the main
> configuration file for exim4
> 
> Maybe I'm just an idiot, but ....
> If I ask for a single monolithic configuration file, why install the conf.d 
> directoty with yet another set of files in it.

Because that directory is being used to re-build the template when you
ask for it. otoh, it is extremely hard to stop dpkg-conffiles from
being installed in the first place, and we are not allowed to modify
(i.e. zap) them in the maintainer scripts.

> Why call the main config file exim4.conf.template instead of exim4.conf?

Because exim4.conf.template is a template for the real config file
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

> This stuff may be obvious to people who eat, sleep & breath mail
> but as someone who only touches these things once every few weeks
> and runs an install or config once every 6 months ... this is a bit confusing.

It is also all documented in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz.

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Greetings
Marc

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