Bug#329988: exim4: Improve README.SMTP-AUTH for setup without SSL/TLS

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:55:17PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> --- README.SMTP-AUTH.orig	2005-09-24 16:15:11.000000000 -0700
> +++ README.SMTP-AUTH	2005-09-24 16:40:24.000000000 -0700
> @@ -17,8 +17,12 @@
>  
>  If you need to enable them for unencrypted connections because your
>  service provider does support neither TLS encryption nor the CRAM MD5
> -authentication method, you can do so by setting the appropriate macro
> -as mentioned in the comments in the configuration file [3].
> +authentication method, you can do so by setting the macro
> +AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS to true in the appropriate
> +configuration file [3] using the line below:
> +
> +AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true
> +
>  
>  --------------------------------
>  
> @@ -46,8 +50,10 @@
>  [1] Not present on woody, sorry.
>  [2] adduser Debian-exim sasl
>  [3] If you are using split configuration (dc_use_split_config='true'
> -in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf), the file to edit is
> -/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples. If you are not using
> -split configuration, your file is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
> +in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf), the file would be in the
> +/etc/exim4/conf.d/main directory (please read the README.Debian for
> +this package carefully, one method is to create a file called
> +000_localmacros). If you are not using split configuration, your file
> +is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros.

I am not too fond of that idea since it replicates information which
might cause it going inconsistent in case of changes. Additionally,
people _need_ to read the docs, and I do not like the idea of imposing
additional work and error possibilities on the maintainer for the sake
of supporting people too lazy to read documentation.

Andreas, what do you think?

Greetings
Marc

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