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plot.lost at gmail

Jul 24, 2013, 7:05 AM

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Confusing config format

Hi all, I've recently had to look into an Exim4 configuration on an
Ubuntu system, which was installed using the apt-get method.

This seems to have the config split over a large number of small files,
in many different directories.

There seems to be one file called update-exim4.conf.conf, and then a
conf.d directory will all the other bits in.

How can I convert this into a single (normal!) config file? The other
systems I use are where exim has been manually compiled and installed
have a nice simple, single, config file. This 'exploded' config just
seems (to me, anyway) a massively complicated way of doing things, with
a much greater risk of something somewhere going wrong.

The config files have things like 'domainlist local_domains =
MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS' and 'relay_from_hosts = MAIN_RELAY_NETS' in them,
yet I can't find where MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS or MAIN_RELAY_NETS is defined.
there is an exntry of dc_relay_nets='[ip]' in update-exim4.conf.conf,
but I don't see how this is converted into the MAIN_RELAY_NETS part.

Please tell me there is way to stop this madness and get back to a
single config file!



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jpff at codemist

Jul 24, 2013, 7:14 AM

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Re: Confusing config format [In reply to]

In my Debian system I installed from aptitude, and then just built my own
exim with a configuration file based on examples and the one we run on
SuSE. Never sa the point of the explosion, and as exim is
mission-critical I update myself fro sources.


On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, plot.lost wrote:

> Hi all, I've recently had to look into an Exim4 configuration on an Ubuntu
> system, which was installed using the apt-get method.
>
> This seems to have the config split over a large number of small files, in
> many different directories.
>
> There seems to be one file called update-exim4.conf.conf, and then a conf.d
> directory will all the other bits in.
>
> How can I convert this into a single (normal!) config file? The other systems
> I use are where exim has been manually compiled and installed have a nice
> simple, single, config file. This 'exploded' config just seems (to me,
> anyway) a massively complicated way of doing things, with a much greater risk
> of something somewhere going wrong.
>
> The config files have things like 'domainlist local_domains =
> MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS' and 'relay_from_hosts = MAIN_RELAY_NETS' in them, yet I
> can't find where MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS or MAIN_RELAY_NETS is defined. there is
> an exntry of dc_relay_nets='[ip]' in update-exim4.conf.conf, but I don't see
> how this is converted into the MAIN_RELAY_NETS part.
>
> Please tell me there is way to stop this madness and get back to a single
> config file!
>
>
>
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mcn4 at leicester

Jul 24, 2013, 7:18 AM

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Re: Confusing config format [In reply to]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:05:00PM +0100, plot.lost wrote:
> Please tell me there is way to stop this madness and get back to a
> single config file!

Drop your own config file in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf and it should
pick up and use that instead.

Matthew


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jgh at wizmail

Jul 24, 2013, 7:18 AM

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Re: Confusing config format [In reply to]

On 24/07/13 15:05, plot.lost wrote:
> Hi all, I've recently had to look into an Exim4 configuration on an
> Ubuntu system, which was installed using the apt-get method.
[...]
> Please tell me there is way to stop this madness and get back to a
> single config file!

https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/DebianExim4
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graeme at graemef

Jul 24, 2013, 7:22 AM

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Re: Confusing config format [In reply to]

On 24 Jul 2013, at 15:05, plot.lost <plot.lost [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hi all, I've recently had to look into an Exim4 configuration on an Ubuntu system, which was installed using the apt-get method.
>
> This seems to have the config split over a large number of small files, in many different directories.

Have you read the supporting Ubuntu (derived from Debian) docs? They're pretty clear on how to undo the split config, and point you to a more appropriate distro-based mailing list.

Clue here:

http://wiki.debian.org/Exim

Graeme
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plot.lost at gmail

Jul 24, 2013, 7:44 AM

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Re: Confusing config format [In reply to]

On 24/07/2013 15:18, Matthew Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:05:00PM +0100, plot.lost wrote:
>> Please tell me there is way to stop this madness and get back to a
>> single config file!
> Drop your own config file in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf and it should
> pick up and use that instead.
>
> Matthew
>
>
That's got it, thanks!


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