Bug#301749: Re: Re: Bug#301749: exim4 delays 30 sec when installing or removing

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:06:57AM -0700, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > Probably because your answers were still in the debconf database. Try
> > purging exim next time
>
> OK, works. Set it up now for local delivery, just for fun. You know,
> five or six unobvious questions isn't trivial.

We're open to suggestions how to simplify initial configuration.

> > What do the first ten lines of 
> > /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated say?
> 
> exim_path = /usr/sbin/exim4
> 
> CONFDIR = /etc/exim4
> 
> DEBCONFminimaldnsDEBCONF
> 
> domainlist local_domains = DEBCONFlocal_domainsDEBCONF
> 
> domainlist relay_to_domains = DEBCONFrelay_domainsDEBCONF

Ouch, shouldn't be that way. Found stupid bug in update-exim4.conf.
Fixed in svn.

Choosing configtype none gives you a pretty explicit debconf note
saying that you exim will be unuseable. Which is exactly what you got.

> > Debian needs an MTA installed.

> Why? I currently don't use cron. I dislike getting mails from sudo.
> Does it really need an MTA installed?

It does if you want it to work. If you want to shoot yourself in the
foot, use the equivs package to build your own pseudopackage which
will satisfy MTA dependencies.

I am keeping this bug open because I would like to inquire from my
collegues whether it is a feature that conftype none always uses the
split config.

Please state what you would like to have changed in the exim 4
packages to have your wishes satisfied.

Greetings
Marc

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