There is some debconf command that you can run that converts it from using the split-style configs to a single config (which is what most of us here do). In that URL I mentioned is the instructions on how to do so.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Lars Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the info Todd, > Maybe i should compile exim from source instead of using the debian > package. Then I have better control over which files go where. Are there > any thing wrong with that? > > Regards Lars > > søn, 31 01 2010 kl. 08:43 -0800, skrev Todd Lyons: >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Lars Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> > wow! It works now! :-) .... just have to understand why! I'll write an >> > explanation in a while. >> >> Debian style split configs have a whole mailing list to themselves, >> but apparently you'll get flamed for asking n00b questions. Instead, >> read this, particularly section 2: >> >> http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/README/README.Debian.html >> >> You'll find that most of us here use straight exim style configs, not >> the Debian split style configs. So when you say "I added domain.com >> to SOME_VARIABLE", we won't know exactly how the Debian style config >> actually uses that variable. In this case +local_domains is fairly >> obvious, however I am willing to bet that you should have used debconf >> instead of modifying the config file directly. Why? Because the next >> time the exim package gets updated, it will overwrite your changes. >> -- >> Regards... Todd >> Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that no body's going >> to know whether you did it or not. >> > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ -- Regards... Todd Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that no body's going to know whether you did it or not. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
