On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:14:03PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> > But that's quite beside the point. exim.conf should be world readable
> > for the sake of users reading it with cat, less or emacs, to figure
> > out what the configuration is. Anything else amounts to security by
> > obscurity.

> Given it can contain secrets such as database credentials, that's obviously
> an incorrect statement.

Have secrets in a separate file?

-- 
Ian

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