[Pkg-exim4-users] Second try to define "virtual"

[Fábio Rabelo]

This wiki section describes exactly what I always used the word 
"virtual" in email context ...

Fábio Rabelo

Marc Haber escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> the inflationary use of the word "virtual" connected with almost
> everything has been accompanying this list, exim, the Debian exim
> packages and all support media. The latest occurence of this is Debian
> bug #408467 (http://bugs.debian.org/408467), where I was faced with
> insults after denying to install a "virtual" router to the Debian
> default configurations.
>
> To make communication about this a little easier, I would like to have
> more "formal" definition of a "virtual foo" in exim context. I have
> created a page on my personal wiki,
> http://wiki.zugschlus.de/doku.php?id=definingvirtualforexim, and would
> like to solicit your comments and improvements.
>
> Once this document reaches maturity, I will try to find "new" words
> for the features we define to avoid misunderstandings with people
> asking for virtual stuff.
>
> I hope that the result of that discussion will be a list of
> definitions what is exactly meant when somebody talks about a "virtual
> foo", which could be more exactly supported by having boilerplate
> config snippets.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
>