Bug#376460: exim4-config: response of yes to Hide local mail name in outgoing mail? seems to produce dc_hide_mailname='false'

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:25:40PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2006-07-03 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> [dc_hide_mailname='true' lost after first upgrade]
> > > /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf had
> > >  dc_hide_mailname='false'
> > > after this.
> 
> > In my lab, it looks like a "Yes" to the "hide mailname" question is
> > not written to update-exim4.conf.conf on initial package installation.
> > When one dpkg-reconfigures exim4-config and answers "yes" again on
> > this question, the configuration is processed correctly.
> 
> > Good catch, Ross, thanks.
> 
> > I suspect that in the case for step 25 in exim4-config.config, we
> > don't properly initialize dc_hide_mailnameif update-exim4.conf.conf
> > does not yet exist.
> [...]
> 
> Correct. This patch
> ------------
> --- exim4-config.config 2006-04-09 13:19:15.000000000 +0200
> +++ /tmp/exim4/exim4-4.62/DEBIAN/config 2006-07-03 20:03:55.308012088 +0200
> @@ -513,6 +513,8 @@
>                 db_subst exim4/hide_mailname mailname ${dc_mailname}
>                 db_subst exim4/hide_mailname dc_other_hostnames \
>                         ${dc_other_hostnames}
> +               db_get $EX4QUESTION || true
> +               dc_hide_mailname="$RET"
>                 if [ "x${dc_hide_mailname}" = "x" ] ; then
>                         dc_hide_mailname='false'
>                         db_set exim4/hide_mailname "${dc_hide_mailname}"
> ------------
> worked for me, I have commited it.

It seems to solve the issue at hand.

I am, however, wondering whether it would be a cleaner approach to set
all variables we use later in the script to sane default values just
before ue4cc is sourced.

Greetings
Marc

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