Bug#462156: exim4-config: request feature: dc_smarthost_port

[Chip Salzenberg]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.69-1
Severity: wishlist

The exim4 configuration integration with debconf is quite nice, but is
missing a feature that I need and others may find useful: the use of a
non-standard port with the smarthost.  Some networks block port 25, and
to compensate, some ISPs allow SMTP connections on non-standard ports.
Mine is one such.

The config change is quite simple: the addition of a
REMOTE_SMTP_SMARTHOST_PORT macro, and of this text in the
"remote_smtp_smarthost" transport:

.ifdef REMOTE_SMTP_SMARTHOST_PORT
    port = REMOTE_SMTP_SMARTHOST_PORT
.endif

Until this is added, I have to tweak the provided configuration on each
upgrade.

adTHANKSvance

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 22-Jan-2008 09:26:24
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.18     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded