Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-29 Thread Drake Mobius
Hm, I don't see it with exim-config. What I see is only a mess of filesand two large, unreadable files (template and config), which keep me from setting up Exim4.template: used when you specify 'single, monolithic file'config: used in conjunction with conf.d/*/* when you specify 'lots of tiny files

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-29 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
listrcv wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [...] If you see the beauty of the seperate files for what it is intended to do, its like magically everything comes into view. Hm, I don't see it with exim-config. What I see is only a mess of files and two large, unreadable files (template and config), whi

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-29 Thread listrcv
Greg Folkert wrote: Here is just a few options I am supporting currently available: Sounds nice :) You must have spent tremendous amounts of time into developing such a thing. If you see the beauty of the seperate files for what it is intended to do, its like magically everything comes int

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 17:24 +0200, listrcv wrote: > 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: s

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-28 Thread listrcv
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 s

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-28 Thread Drake Mobius
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.I think my greatest hate of exim-con

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-28 Thread listrcv
Greg Folkert wrote: If you do a bit of reading, you'll see that the multi-config files setup is very flexible. It might be flexible, but it's utterly hard to get and to maintain an overview of what is actually being configured. I didn't manage to find that out, and getting to the configurati

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:05 +0200, listrcv wrote: > Drake Mobius wrote: > > Now I've got my mail server running, and all it took was an hour and a > > half of complete idiocy and associated frustation! > > Yeah, the automagical configuration of Exim4 is a horrible mess! You > have no chance to ge

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-27 Thread Drake Mobius
Nah, I just used apt-get removeĀ  --purge then reinstalled and it allowed me to reconfigure properly. In fact I'm only using this address because gmail is SO good at dealing with lists. On 3/27/06, listrcv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Drake Mobius wrote:> Now I've got my mail server running, and all i

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-27 Thread listrcv
Drake Mobius wrote: Now I've got my mail server running, and all it took was an hour and a half of complete idiocy and associated frustation! Yeah, the automagical configuration of Exim4 is a horrible mess! You have no chance to get a clue what's actually configured and what not. Just ignore

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:16:30PM -0500, Jay Zach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Drake Mobius wrote: > > Well it of course FINALLY hit me that I should have just used > > dpkg-reconfigure instead of apt-get remove et al. Attempts to do this > > fail with the same

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-26 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drake Mobius wrote: > Just thought I'd share a fun little experience I recently had with > EXIM. > > I had been having some trouble navigating the exim multi-file config, > attempting to change my local mailserver into a real internet-capable > server

Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-26 Thread Drake Mobius
Just thought I'd share a fun little experience I recently had withEXIM.I had been having some trouble navigating the exim multi-file config,attempting to change my local mailserver into a real internet-capable server. Exim4 came installed already when I first installed debian, andI wasn't sure how