[Pkg-exim4-users] split configuration issues

[Thijs Koetsier | Exception]

Thanks for the extended information Marc. 
Your remarks and the docs helped me to set up the quota in the right way and
I better understand the way in which the configuration files work.

Kind regards,
Thijs

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> Van: pkg-exim4-users-bounces at lists.alioth.debian.org 
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> Namens Marc Haber
> 
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:18:32PM +0200, Thijs Koetsier | 
> Exception wrote:
> > I'm having trouble to exactly understand the way to 
> configure exim4 by 
> > split files configuration. By reading the documentation I 
> do have an 
> > idea about the separate routers and transport files, which 
> helped me 
> > with vacation messages and spamchecks.
> > 
> > What I don't get, is how to set 'normal' configuration parameters. 
> > When I want to set the quota for each user, the Exim4 book 
> tells me to 
> > specify this as "quota = 10M".
> 
> In which part of the configuration do you have to set this 
> option (not having the exim book handy by now)? From a quick 
> look in the spec.txt file the quota option is part of the 
> appendfile transport configuration, so - in a split 
> configuration - that option goes into each appendfile transport.
>
>
> It might be a surprise that transport configuration can be 
> found in /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport.
> 
> > I don't see how to set this value in the split files, and think it 
> > might be preferred to have a router to check an incoming 
> message with 
> > the quota and if that leads to problems, to have a 
> transport send it 
> > back to the user.
> 
> I do not quite understand what you mean.
>
> I would recommend reading spec.txt. The documentation of the 
> quota-related options in the appendfile transport seems to be 
> quite extensive. Maybe, the FAQ question Q0605 is of help as well.
> Additionally, the exim wiki gives a link to 
> http://www.alios.org/exim4quota.html which might be of help 
> for you as well.
> 
> Please note that all this documentation is available to all 
> exim users with direct links from the exim upstream web site.
> 
> There does not seem to be an easy possibility to have exim 
> reject messages to an over-quota mailbox at SMTP time.
> 
> 
> > For these kind of things I can't hardly find any 
> documentation; what I 
> > find is mostly based on monolithic file.
> 
> The split config is not _that_ different from the monolithic 
> config as you might think. The split config is concatenated 
> together to give a monolithic config for the daemon, so the 
> correspondence of the split config directories and the 
> monolithic file is pretty much 1:1.
> 
> This is from the update-exim4.conf(8) man page:
>        If dc_use_split_config in 
> /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf specifies a
>        split  configuration, update-exim4.conf processes the 
> /etc/exim4/conf.d
>        subdirectories in  the  order  main,  acl,  router,  
> transport, retry,
>        rewrite  and auth. Within each directory it takes 
> files in lexical sort
>        order by file name. It concatenates all these files 
> and makes the  deb-
>        conf replacement described below.
> 
> Maybe it would be a good idea to read that man page in its entirety.
> 
> > My question is, am I looking at this split configuration in 
> the wrong way?
> > Is it possible to easily embed configuration for the 
> monolithic file 
> > in split files (which I thought it was)
> 
> A monolithic configuration is built from the split files. 
> It's the same thing, only differently packaged.
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 
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