On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:43:58PM -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
> I've not actually seen what's hateful about Exim's config, although if
> you've only ever seen the Debian-ised bastard mutant offspawn of M4
> macros then that's different. Debian are trying to ensure that
> installing package foo automatically has Exim take care of foo's
> mail-requirements after just a package reconfigure. The aims are noble,
> just don't try and look at how it's done.
Is makes me cry. Don't suppose anyone knows how to see what the config
file looks like *after* exim has parsed all the stupid ifdefs and macros
and stuff? Aside from going through it by hand, of course.
> Is your experience with Exim debianised or not? If not, then personally
> I think you're on crack. Exim not only has a relatively sane
> configuration, it's one designed for humans to read and the manual is
> called The Exim Specification for a reason -- if behaviour doesn't match
> the manual, it's a bug. No arguments, no quibbling, one or the other
> gets fixed. It's the most complete and comprehensive and most damned
> useful documentation of any software product I've used
I beg to differ. While I agree that it's complete and comprehensive, it
is largely impenetrable unless you already have a good idea about how to
drive exim. The O'Reilly book for exim 3 suffers from this bug too IIRC.
No idea about the CUP book for exim 4 yet though.
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