Bug#418910: Allow dsearch in other_hostnames

[Marc Haber]

severity #418910 wishlist
tags #418910 wontfix
thanks

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:36:05AM +1000, Toby Chamberlain wrote:
> A simple change to update-exim4.conf allows the use of dsearch (and others) 
> in dc_other_hostnames:
> 
> diff /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf.orig. /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf
> 127c127
> <       sed -e 'sÄ[;: ]*$ÄÄ' -e 'sÄ *ÄÄ' -e 'sÄ;Ä:Äg' )"
> ---
> >      sed -e 'sÄ[;: ]*$ÄÄ' -e 'sÄ *ÄÄ' -e 'sÄ;Ä:Äg' -e 'sÄ=Ä;Äg' )"
> 
> With this change "dc_other_hosts=host1;dsearch=/etc/exim4/virtual" works as 
> expected (although maybe there's a better character than "=" as there's 
> already one on the line)
> 
> While it does seem a bit convoluted - changing semi-colons to colons and 
> then some other character to semi-colons - I think the benefit of having 
> the feature far outweighs the wierdness.

I do not plan to make update-exim4.conf any more complicated to allow
something that has never been supported.

Especially not at this time where people will have to live without
this "feature" for the etch lifetime.

Sorry.

Greetings
Marc

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