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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:27:39PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> 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.

Do you want to be constructive? If so, please stop the insults and use
your exim configuration knowledge to read the configuration, which is
rather easy to understand at least in this part.

If you want to bitch or just to get rid of your christmas frustration,
please do this somewhere else as I have enough of that myself.

> > 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.

If you know it so much better, please offer to take over the package.
Or, better, take this to -devel or to the tech ctte.

Greetings
Marc, wondering why people insist on discussing after an answer of
"yes, this is a bug, and it will be fixed"

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