Bug#244724: exim4: passwd.client is better to use wildlsearch and documentation updates

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:11:46AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi Osamu,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:19:55PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > My ISP put back AUTH for SMTP so I hit this bug again :-)
> > 
> > It took me a while to realize the confofuration needs to use canonical
> > name or just *.  I think Debian provided configuration is better to use
> > wildsearch than plain lsearch to enable wildcard in the hostname field 
> > here.
> 
> That's a rather neat idea and I'm going to implement this soon. I am
> wondering, however, that we shuold probably use nwildlsearch instead
> of the wildlsearch* you have been suggesting. We do not need string
> expansion there, and wildlsearch* strikes me as redundant. Can you
> please verify?

OK.  If this mail goes out, then nwildlsearch is working :-)

Now I have passwd.client

### with nwildlsearch
^.*smtp.*\.dti\.ne\.jp:foo at my.isp.net:XXXXXXX

Let's think a bit while we are at it.

> I do not understand this part of the patch. Server authentication does
> not use passwd.client, and your change is going to introduce wildcards
> for _user names_, which does not sound desireable. Any chance that
> this part of the patch is result of a search-and-replace call?
> 
> Without better arguments, I'm not going to take this part of the patch.

This was accidental.  I will test this mail without it.

> The other instances of lsearch* have been replaced by nwildlsearch in
> svn, and pending successful testing, I'm going to upload soon.
> 
...
> These are very good patches, modulo some Japanisms in the English
> wording, which I have replaced by appropriate Germanisms ;)

Also, you may want to update comments passwd.client comments and
reference to passwd.client in 30_exim~xamples too.

Let's see.

Osamu