Drake Mobius wrote:
Virtual domains are a big concern to me..I may be brand new at this but I'm
stuck with the task and I need an enterprise-size mail server.
cpanel: http://www.cpanel.net/ is used for site config and mgmt
plesk: server mgmt for web hosting. think webmin, but bigger.
Hm, that seems like tools needed by/suited to ISPs. That's totally
different from what I need.
I think my greatest hate of exim-config thus far has actually been my lack
of experience with DEBCONF, and thus all the debconf replacements in the
otherwise easy to read config.
yeah
It should also be noted that the multi-file config is more like "The Debian
Way" tm
As you can see with apache, includes of directories of files is easier for
dropping in a new section and version managing an existing config. I do this
also!
Yes, such a way to configure things has great advantages when you want
to do things automatically. The problem is that automatical things tend
not to be suited that much for human intervention, so it becomes
difficult to find a way allowing for both, manual configuration and
automated. The automated configuration introduces additional learning
overhead when humans want to interfere --- and be it just to get what
they want --- and exim-config is a nice example of the problems arising
from that.
But still, when questions come up like 'How do I configure a mail
server/my mail to have virus scanning and SPAM checking?', they are
probably not being asked by ISPs who need flexibility but by
users/admins who just want what they ask for and who will (want to) end
up with a static and reliable setup for their mail system. The
autoconfig is imho not suited for that. Maybe it will include options to
set these things up at a later stage, but that will still leave users
alone in case something fails. That is what Windoze does, except that it
leaves them alone long before ... If they know what they do, they are
able to help themselfes :)
GH
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