Bug#297841: exim4-config: Local rewrite stopped working after upgrade in sarge

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> 1) sarge upgrade. I'm afraid I'm only one who's going to be hit by this 
> change. Basically, when your mail box is on an outside server, I does seem 
> logical not to select "received by SMTP or fetchmail" but instead "no local 
> mail". It looks like this cannot be fixed automatically (since for some 
> people keeping the same option is desired) but there really should be some 
> big warning about possibly needing to change one's setup. Do you plan to do 
> so?

There is no exim 4 in sarge, so we do not expect any updates.

> 2) debconf. As said above, one can be confused by the current list of 
> options. I think the "internet site" idea is quite good: give a short 
> description of the type of host. Then after ";" explain more technically 
> what will happen in that setup.
> Would it make sense for the second line to start with "dial-up;" and the 
> third line with "LAN;" ?
> There might be better terms, but this should give the idea to most people 
> (in particular, not to chose the 3rd if the smart host is not a local 
> server).

We cannot change any templates at this state of the release as we
would invalidate translations to 40 languages.

After sarge, we will probably use the experiences we have made for a
template re-work.

Greetings
Marc

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