On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:13:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The main problem I have with the current setup is that out of the > > choices which are currently available, I never know which to pick since > > none of them seems to ever work correctly for my purposes. This may be > > because I misunderstand them; however, personally I wouldn't call myself > > an inexperienced exim user (I've been setting up some fairly complex > > exim-based setups), so I wonder how someone who is inexperienced would > > handle things. > > This is one of the reasons why I am the wrong guy to make exim more > user friendly. I'm just too experienced to think in the twisted ways a > user would do. > > exim4's README.Debian in unstable and testing has much more verbose > documentation about the debconf stuff. Did you already look at this > information?
I've just seen that, when preparing the mail I sent in reply to the quoted one. However, I don't think that should be allowed to be relevant for the initial configuration, since you cannot see that until you've done the initial configuration (unless you do dpkg-reconfigure or similar, but that's besides the point for now). [...] > > > Almost nobody gets it right, and the mechanisms behind it are by far > > > the most complex every-day internet service. Even DNS is simpler. > > > > What does that have to do with getting your default setups to do it > > right? > > Because there is no universal "right" which is "right" in all > circumstances. Of course, but then you're no longer talking about default setups. Unless I'm missing something, which is certainly possible. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
