Bug#403605: exim4-config: dc_other_hostnames expanded by the shell, corrupting it

[Paul Slootman]

On Tue 19 Dec 2006, Marc Haber wrote:
> > 
> > Please give examples, because it's a pain to find out what the macro of
> > the day is in the exim4-config setup :-(
> 
> If you find this a pain, you are not sufficiently familiar with exim
> configuration to run a system with a wildcard MX.

Uhm, no, I'm sufficiently familiar with the exim config, not the random
macros used by exim4-config.

> Looking for dc_other_hostnames in update-exim4.conf.conf(5) will lead
> you to DEBCONFlocal_domainsDEBCONF, which will - when looked for in
> exim configuration - lead you to the MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS macro.
> 
> >   Is there any definitive list, with explanations?
> 
> No, we expect people fiddling with these to know their way around exim
> configuration to ease our support load.

Again, knowledge of exim configuration does not automatically lead to
knowledge of obfuscated exim4-config macro names like
DEBCONFlocal_domainsDEBCONF and MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS.

It's a pity that you go out of your way to make it so hard to use
exim4-config when in principle it's a fine way of configuring exim4.



Paul Slootman