Bug#418910: Allow dsearch in other_hostnames

[Toby Chamberlain]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for you prompt reply (and heaps more thanks for maintaining the 
package in the first place).

While I respect your decision as the maintainer, and am not going to make a 
big deal out of it as I'll just make the change myself, I will ask you to 
reconsider for the following reasons:

1. Using dsearch in the domains_list is widespread and thus this issue 
affects a lot of people
2. The code change is very simple, and is very unlikely to cause more issues 
than it fixes
3. You say it's "never been supported" but exim has supported dsearch in the 
domains_list for a very long time (and appears to have been broken in Debian 
when dc_other_hostnames was introduced)
4. All the "exim virtual hosts" guides I found on Google use this method, so 
first-timers will be confused
5. You say its "more complication", but for those that don't need it there 
is no complication - they just enter hostnames as they do now.
6. For those that use it, it will be simpler than having to maintain the 
list manually.

I hope you can see that the fix will
a) only take a few minutes of your time, but benefit a large number of 
people
b) restore standard functionality that is supported in the upstream exim and 
previous Debian versions
c) make managing virtual domains on exim server simpler without complicating 
other setups

If after considering all this, you still decide not to fix the bug then I 
will just have to trust your judgement.

Toby


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Haber" <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>
To: "Toby Chamberlain" <tjchamberlain at hotmail.com>; <418910 at bugs.debian.org>
Cc: <392831 at bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#418910: Allow dsearch in other_hostnames


>> 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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