Bug#392831: exim4-config: colons or semi colons as separators

Mike Ginou mike at ginou.ca
Mon Jun 4 13:50:04 UTC 2007


> Using complex dsearch expressions in what has always been definied as
> "a list of domains" is not standard functionality. If you want to use
> the upstream exim feature, use it in the exim configuration, not in
> the update-exim4.conf configuration.

Could you PLEASE add a warning when upgrading? I hosed my system's mail
for the weekend because I had a dsearch in my local_domains debconf key.

Better yet, since there are a fairly limited number of exim list search
types, perhaps they could be detected and those semi colons could be
left alone?

For example: dsearch;/some/directory and lsearch;/some/file are valid
and shouldn't be mangled as part of an effort to blindly replace
semi-colons with colons.

-Mike




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