renaming exim4 and apache2 (was: signify and signify-openbsd names)

2024-10-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:58:23 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >On Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 12:43 Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 10:26 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 8:58 AM BST, Marc Haber wrote: >> > > P.S.: Isnt it abou

Processed: Re: Bug#872812: exim4-config: Exim configuration error in line 684 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp

2017-08-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reopen -1 Bug #872812 {Done: m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)} [general] exim4-config: Exim configuration error in line 684 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #872812 to the same values pr

Bug#872812: exim4-config: Exim configuration error in line 684 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp

2017-08-22 Thread Holger Levsen
control: reopen -1 control: reassign -1 jenkins.debian.org thanks On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:27:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Not a bug: not true, see above. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844220#65 thanks for the pointer! -- cheers, Holger signature.asc D

Bug#872812: marked as done (exim4-config: Exim configuration error in line 684 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp)

2017-08-21 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 21 Aug 2017 23:27:12 +0200 with message-id <20170821212712.hzgfd4f2o5cxm...@bongo.bofh.it> and subject line Re: Bug#872812: exim4-config: Exim configuration error in line 684 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp has caused the Debian Bug report #872812, reg

Bug#872812: exim4-config: Exim configuration error in line 684 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp

2017-08-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: general Severity: serious Hi, I seem to recall that there was a change causing the following (which is due to "user mail not found") but I'm unable to remember which package was that… So I'm seeing this in various jenkins tests testing package installations: Set

Processed: Re: Please Recommend default-mta | m-t-a, not exim4 | m-t-a

2010-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > unblock 542872 by 508644 Bug #542872 [at] Please Recommend default-mta | m-t-a, not exim4 | m-t-a Was blocked by: 508644 Removed blocking bug(s) of 542872: 508644 > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assi

Processed: Re: Bug#542872: Please Recommend default-mta | m-t-a, not exim4 | m-t-a

2009-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 542872 by 508644 Bug #542872 [at] Please Recommend default-mta | m-t-a, not exim4 | m-t-a Was not blocked by any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) of 542872: 508644 > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assi

Re: Bug#518752: update-exim4.conf: line 38: $@: unbound variable

2009-03-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-03-08 Alban browaeys wrote: > >From \amethyst on freenode #bash (Neil Moore) : > <\amethyst> it is a bug I think > <\amethyst> that you still get the error even with $...@-foo} > <\amethyst> but $...@+"$@"} probably shouldn't error out > <\amethyst> since ${foo+bar} does not > <\amethys

Re: Bug#518752: update-exim4.conf: line 38: $@: unbound variable

2009-03-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
clone 518752 -1 reassign -1 bash found -1 4.0-1 retitle -1 set -u should not error on "${@:+}" if there are no args thanks On 2009-03-08 Alban browaeys wrote: > >From \amethyst on freenode #bash (Neil Moore) : > <\amethyst> it is a bug I think > <\amethyst> that you still get the error even with

Bug#518752: update-exim4.conf: line 38: $@: unbound variable

2009-03-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-03-08 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Package: exim4-config > Version: 4.69-9 > Severity: important > File: /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf > starting with bash version 4.0-1: > /var/log/boot:Sun Mar 8 19:13:03 2009: Starting > MTA:/usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf: line 38:

Re: cron pulling citadel-server instead of exim4.

2008-10-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20/10/2008): > Unfortunately, I do not manage to understand why exim4 was not chosen: #474999. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

cron pulling citadel-server instead of exim4.

2008-10-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, on a minimal Lenny system, I wanted to install cowbuilder and ended up with a very surprising debconf question about citadel-server. "aptitude why" explains that it was pulled by cron: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude why citadel-server i cronRecommends exim4 | post

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Personally, what made me stick to Exim so far is the ability to > >> configure retry behavior on a per-domain basis. One of my mail servers > > > > Postfix does that too. You direct the domains to a dif

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Personally, what made me stick to Exim so far is the ability to >> configure retry behavior on a per-domain basis. One of my mail servers > > Postfix does that too. You direct the domains to a different transport, and

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > Personally, what made me stick to Exim so far is the ability to > configure retry behavior on a per-domain basis. One of my mail servers Postfix does that too. You direct the domains to a different transport, and setup that transport with whichever pa

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-23 Thread Florian Weimer
pical use?!? "/usr/sbin/exim4 -bt" or even "/usr/sbin/exim4 -d+all -bt" can be a real lifesaver if need to figure out what's going on. Older versions of Postfix lacked -bt support (I just had a brief encounter with 2.0 on a customer machine *shivers*), partly due to its non-monol

MTA religious wars (was: Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...))

2007-11-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:41:20PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. When talking about security, exim doesn't exactly have a horribly bad track record. It's not qmail, but then I wouldn't *want* to use qmail for other reasons. > Why

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Miles Bader wrote: > Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference between exim > and postfix really great enough to matter for typical use?!? No, they are not. And I speak this as a Postfix user (I replace exim with postfix in every box I use or admin, and all

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me, exim4 is better: > * less memory on run time > * mailname is implimented as expected by the policy. Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference b

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:44:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just to be sure... I am running postfix now just to find out the same > questions you have... > I see no practical reason to run postfix on desktop machine now except > if postfix is something you are very familiar with.

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: >> I believe http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_VERIFICATION_README.html >> details the facility you're looking for. > > I don't believe it does. I don't want to verify the recipient address > - I want to try delivering the redirected mail and avoid being left > holding the baby if the dest

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:31:17 + MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointers. Can a policy server delay an incoming mail? > I suspect that sleeping in the perl would delay all incoming mail and > there's no access(5) response like Exim's delay, else I could do it > another way.

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Still, if not...well, I wrote an event-driven postfix policy daemon in > perl using POE that's able to handle > 100 queries/second on consumer > hardware in a few dozen lines of code. Thanks for the pointers. Can a policy server delay an inco

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some > research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: > http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA Although I am identified as running Postfix there, that was installed as a test a while ago. Mo

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
package everything without debhelper seems to be running sendmail on his desktop machine. I am not taking this data to say we should follow him. This data was meant to give some objective status view. Just because popcon says exim4 is the one everyone running, it is not the whole truth. That is the

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread MJ Ray
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of removing data on you, it may be interesting to edit the > following text to provide information on you and also add section on why > you think exim is better as note on wiki. > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA There is no link to edit that p

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> 1. it doesn't seem to have as many anti-spam possibilities as Exim - > there's postgrey for greylisting, but how can I tarpit RBL matches and > other offences? Look at policyd-weight, for example. > > 2. when an email that I'm forwarding (due to /etc/aliases or a > .forward or whatever) comes

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:36:06 + MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. it doesn't seem to have as many anti-spam possibilities as Exim - > there's postgrey for greylisting, but how can I tarpit RBL matches and > other offences? A quick 'apt-cache search postfix' lists a number of different pol

MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, After seeing recent post(*) on the default MTA issue, I did some research and experiment on MTAs. They are summarized at: http://wiki.debian.org/DefaultMTA Also good review was found at: http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison Although both exim4 and postfix daemons are negligibly small ones

Re: Bug#408467: exim4-config: exim4 'virtual domains' config fits neatly in without interfering with config: please add!

2007-01-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
@begin note to debian developers dear debian developers: would someone _please_ explain to marc that, as exim4 is the default mailer for debian, that he is in quite a serious position of responsibility, and that exim4 needs to cater for _everybody_'s needs, with the minimum amount of disru

Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:14:23PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Reportbug installs who do not have exim installed correctly should be > >using reportbug's built-in SMTP handling abilities and either relaying > >to their upstream smtp serv

Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 11/10/06, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > A default Etch install has Exim configured for local mail only. So > reportbug mails will end up frozen in a queue somewhere, without any > direct warning to the user. Reportbug installs who do

Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-09 Thread Blars Blarson
age over 400 for a while, 25% idle time, 50% wait. The only unusuall thing running was many exim4 and procmail processes starting and completing quickly. My guess is spammers tried sending so much spam at once that nothing got through. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > A default Etch install has Exim configured for local mail only. So > reportbug mails will end up frozen in a queue somewhere, without any > direct warning to the user. Reportbug installs who do not have exim installed correctly should be using report

Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-09 Thread sean finney
hi olof, On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 13:47 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Hi debian devel subscribers, > > A default Etch install has Exim configured for local mail only. > So reportbug mails will end up frozen in a queue somewhere, without > any direct warning to the user. > > I think this is not

Re: Bug#397646: exim4-config: reportbug mail issue

2006-11-09 Thread Olaf van der Spek
it? Please CC me. Greetings, Olaf On 11/9/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tags #397646 wontfix user [EMAIL PROTECTED] usertags #39646 i-dont-like-the-default-config thanks On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:02:58PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Since exim4 is configured for l

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:45:09PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:30:52 -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >So have a note in exim4's debconf which tells the users that, and only > >display the note if DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 or $1=&#x

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-13 Thread Frank Küster
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:05:07 +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>In that case, where the problem is that people do *not* read these >>files, and "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" exits silently withou

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:05:07 +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In that case, where the problem is that people do *not* read these >files, and "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" exits silently without doing >anything, it seems to be ideal. Explain tha

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:30:52 -0700, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So have a note in exim4's debconf which tells the users that, and only >display the note if DEBCONF_RECONFIGURE=1 or $1='reconfigure'. That is what I did for the exim4 package uploaded

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:44:57 +0200, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If we cannot expect that, perhaps we should advertise the existance of >those README.Debian files better. I would be interested in how exim4 can advertise its README.Debian any better, short paying for go

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > My point is that `dpkg-reconfigure exim4` is what users seem to > expect to work (without reading documentation). Therefore I > suggested adding some additional information at the point that > doesn't behave to what users expect. I d

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Frank Küster
ole frontends, dissapears off of > the screen rapidly, etc. > > Using echo to inform the user of things is really not ideal. > README.Debian, NEWS.Debian, and low priority debconf notes when > appropriate are much, much better. In that case, where the problem is that people do *not*

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Reinhard Tartler
ole frontends, dissapears off of > the screen rapidly, etc. > > Using echo to inform the user of things is really not ideal. > README.Debian, NEWS.Debian, and low priority debconf notes when > appropriate are much, much better. And this is exactly the point: ppl just do 'dpkg-reconf

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Cons: Untranslated message > Pros: less annoying by not interrupting installs and upgrades, easy to > implement Cons: Can't be easily seen in non-console frontends, dissapears off of the screen rapidly, etc. Using echo to inform the user of thi

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sean finney wrote: >> funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the >> users learn about looking at README.Debian :) >> > I think users can be forgiven not reading every README.Debian in > packages which are installed by defau

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Jon Dowland
sean finney wrote: funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the users learn about looking at README.Debian :) I think users can be forgiven not reading every README.Debian in packages which are installed by default. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSU

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-10 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > "how to reconfigure exim4" is one of the most frequently asked > questions on #debian. How about a simple 'echo' when reconfiguring? When upgrading/installing the exim packages, users most probably won

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
sswords, firewall rules, backups, and what services to export. We should not demand that he pay close attention to all 1900 packages. Or even the "important" ones. I think that if we can figure out how to get dpkg-reconfigure exim4 to actually configure exim4, then we should.

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
e magically knew that > >> > when configuring exim4, it must actually configure exim4-config. > > > >funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the > >users learn about looking at README.Debian :) > > That is unrealistic. I expe

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:23:48 +0200, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:08 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >The ultimate solution would be it dpkg-reconfigure magically knew that when >> >configuring exim4, it must actually configure exim4-conf

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread sean finney
hey marc, On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:08 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >The ultimate solution would be it dpkg-reconfigure magically knew that when > >configuring exim4, it must actually configure exim4-config. funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:22:05 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:58 schrieb James Westby: >> The default level when doing dpkg-reconfigure is low, so that it wont be >> seen on installation, but if the user tries to reconfigure

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:47:44 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >/usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz: That is one of the most ignored files on any Debian system. Users are so incredibly stupid! Did you miss that exim4 is my package, and that you are pointing m

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:22:05PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:58 schrieb James Westby: > > The default level when doing dpkg-reconfigure is low, so that it wont be > > seen on installation, but if the user tries to reconfigure exim4 they > >

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:58 schrieb James Westby: > The default level when doing dpkg-reconfigure is low, so that it wont be > seen on installation, but if the user tries to reconfigure exim4 they > will be directed to the correct package. The ultimate solution would be it dpkg-re

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread James Westby
On (08/10/06 22:35), Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 08 October 2006 22:26, Marc Haber wrote: > > I'd now like a low priority debconf note in exim4, exim4-base and the > > daemon packages which is only shown if the package is to be > > _re_configured, and tells people to dpk

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:26 schrieb Marc Haber: > "how to reconfigure exim4" is one of the most frequently asked > questions on #debian. > > The reason is that dpkg-reconfigure exim4 is a no-op since exim4 is a > metapackage pulling in the "real" package

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 08 October 2006 22:26, Marc Haber wrote: > I'd now like a low priority debconf note in exim4, exim4-base and the > daemon packages which is only shown if the package is to be > _re_configured, and tells people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. A _low_ priority note pro

how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, "how to reconfigure exim4" is one of the most frequently asked questions on #debian. The reason is that dpkg-reconfigure exim4 is a no-op since exim4 is a metapackage pulling in the "real" packages exim4, exim4-base, exim4-daemon-light/heavy/custom. The correct command

Re: exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 06, Alexander Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I have some objections: > 1) first reason is not true anymore. Since > 2004 SPF has a lot of testing; Which showed well that it is a bad idea. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: exim4

2006-07-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
Alexander Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > AFAIK, debian maintainers are volunteers and they became maintainers to > make Debian better. What the reason for maintainer to _reject_ > improvements? Another reason is this one: # Compiling Exim with experimental features. These are documented

Re: Re: exim4

2006-07-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 18:03 +0300, Alexander Vlasov a écrit : > b) default exim with spf and lot of people just enabling it in config > (rest of exim users wouldn't notice the difference) > ? > > AFAIK, debian maintainers are volunteers and they became maintainers to > make Debian better. Wha

Re: Re: exim4

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello. Well, rebuilding a package is not a problem; I already have about ~ 70 packages rebuilt for various reasons; It's not a problem to add another one. But I'm trying to make things as comfortable as possible for all. What is better: a) default exim w/o spf and lot of people using local instal

Re: exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Sam Morris
Take matters into your own hands. :) The following is what I used to do to run exim4 4.50 with SPF checking. I think that the same broad steps will also apply to more recent versions of the package. # apt-get install build-essential libspf2-dev fakeroot # apt-get build-dep exim4 $ apt-get

exim4 & spf: #377034 & #258210

2006-07-06 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello. I filed a wishlist[1] on exim4 package asking to enable SPF[2] in exim4-daemon-heavy package, but maintainer rejected it and recommended me discuss this situation on debian-devel@, so I beg to ask your attention. Currently, debian ships two versions of exim4 -- light with absolutely

Re: nasty libgnutls11 bug still present (affects exim4 and libnss-ldap)

2006-04-26 Thread Daniel Hermann
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On 4/19/06, Daniel Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the very least, could you please reopen bug #325971 so that people > > can find out what's wrong with their server. > > AIUI, anybody can reopen a bug report. > T

Re: nasty libgnutls11 bug still present (affects exim4 and libnss-ldap)

2006-04-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 4/19/06, Daniel Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the very least, could you please reopen bug #325971 so that people > can find out what's wrong with their server. AIUI, anybody can reopen a bug report. It's not considered nice if the maintainer disagrees, but as a rule, for a real bug yo

nasty libgnutls11 bug still present (affects exim4 and libnss-ldap)

2006-04-19 Thread Daniel Hermann
the bug or (even better) to fix it for the next Sarge update, since this bug renders the package essentially unusable for production environments (e.g. exim4 connecting to LDAP over SSL, or libnss-ldap, see bug report). I didn't get any response yet, nor has been any activity there to fix th

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Zobel-Helas [Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:53:05 +0100]: Hi Martin, > On Sunday, 05 Mar 2006, aba wrote: > > The plan is to make s-p-u such a place, but until it happens, I think > > volatile can have such packages as an exception, if the bug is severe > > enough. > sorry, but i disagree with you

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Smith
sorry, but i disagree with you on that. For me volatile is handling packages with volatile data, not for handling packages the stable release manager denys to take into a stable release. I've not followed this bug but AIUI SRM has approved the package for the next point release. If the bug i

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi Andi, On Sunday, 05 Mar 2006, you wrote: > The plan is to make s-p-u such a place, but until it happens, I think > volatile can have such packages as an exception, if the bug is severe > enough. sorry, but i disagree with you on that. For me volatile is handling packages with volatile data, no

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
right now. > > Right, I've always thought it'd be useful to have a place to make > _accepted_ s-p-u uploads available (read: those that'll be in the next > stable point release fore sure). Currently s-p-u is not that place, > nor is debian-volatile as per its de

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
ave a place to make _accepted_ s-p-u uploads available (read: those that'll be in the next stable point release fore sure). Currently s-p-u is not that place, nor is debian-volatile as per its definition, but _maybe_ the exim4 issue is important enough as to make the volatile archive admins

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-05 Thread Andreas Barth
e better spelled out so > as to make things more clear). Additionally, exim4 packages are already > available in s-p-u, so I don't see a pressing reason to make them > available in another repository. > > I am willing to be convinced I am wrong here, but at first blush I don't > se

Re: Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-04 Thread Stephen Gran
... I am sorry to say, but I have to agree with zobel here. The changes aren't exactly what I think of when I think of the voltile archive mandate (although again, perhaps that needs to be better spelled out so as to make things more clear). Additionally, exim4 packages are already available

Propose exim4 for debian-volatile (Was: exim4_4.50-8sarge1)

2006-03-03 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
d > | only contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep > | them functional; > the new version contains exactly one changeset. This changeset is > necessary to keep exim4 operational towards hosts having ipv4 and ipv6 > records. As more and more hosts get ipv6

Bug#349650: ITP: vexim -- virtual mail hosting with exim4, php, mysql - closes #348846

2006-01-24 Thread Daniel Knabl
mail hosting with exim4, php, mysql - closes #348846 virtual mail hosting based on php and mysql for exim4 vexim is a virtual mail hosting system based on php and mysql backend for the exim4 MTA. It also includes ability to manage spamassassin and clamav integration and configuration management. s

Re: [Pbuilder-maint] Re: pbuilder/cdebootstrap/etch: exim4-config install error in etch

2005-10-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Junichi Uekawa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > shadow 1:4.0.12-1 > > was the first version to introduce the change; > and apparently it didn't enter testing until recently > since it had a few bugs. Yep, that one slightly broke adduser in environments without shadow passwords. Marc had to fix

Re: [Pbuilder-maint] Re: pbuilder/cdebootstrap/etch: exim4-config install error in etch

2005-10-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > > >http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pbuilder/testsuite/cdebootstrap/pbuilder-create-etch.log?cvsroot=pbuilder > > I do not have a clue about pbuilder, but adduser's support of > shadow-less systems was first broken in 3.64 by the fix for bug > 298883. Due to cdebootstrap b

Re: pbuilder/cdebootstrap/etch: exim4-config install error in etch

2005-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:56:01 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You can check it out, but the last successful testsuite that I ran >and committed to CVS is 4 Oct 2005; which is not months. > >http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pbuilder/testsuite/cdebootstrap/pbuilder-cre

Re: pbuilder/cdebootstrap/etch: exim4-config install error in etch

2005-10-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > >O: Setting up exim4-config (4.52-2) ... > >P: Configuring package exim4-config > >O: hostname: > >O: Host name lookup failure > >O: > >O: hostname: > >O: Host name lookup failure > >O: > >O: Adding system-user for exim (v4) >

Re: pbuilder/cdebootstrap/etch: exim4-config install error in etch

2005-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:55:47 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From since about yesterday, on my amd64 box, >etch(testing) is failing to bootstrap with the following message: > >O: Setting up exim4-config (4.52-2) ... >P: Configuring package exim4-config &

pbuilder/cdebootstrap/etch: exim4-config install error in etch

2005-10-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, From since about yesterday, on my amd64 box, etch(testing) is failing to bootstrap with the following message: O: Setting up exim4-config (4.52-2) ... P: Configuring package exim4-config O: hostname: O: Host name lookup failure O: O: hostname: O: Host name lookup failure O: O: Adding system

Please test exim4 4.44-1 (linked against db4.2) in experimental

2005-01-23 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, exim4 4.44-1 has been uploaded to experimental. This is the first package version of exim4 to be linked against db4.2, which is a good thing for d-i. The exim4 maintainers consider to upload this package for sid and sarge. For this to happen, we need testing. I would like to invite all

Re: Please test exim4 with db4.2 support.

2005-01-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andreas Metzler wrote: >> By popular demand I've built testpackages of exim4 linked against >> db4.2. [...] > Any special reason why you didn't use db4.3 instead of db4.2? I want to get this into sarge, db4.3 is

Re: Please test exim4 with db4.2 support.

2005-01-20 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Andreas Metzler wrote: > By popular demand I've built testpackages of exim4 linked against > db4.2. - The packages work for me(TM) but I am not doing any > db-acrobatics with exim4 (like reading the list of local-parts from > cyrus-imapd's internal database). I'd app

Please test exim4 with db4.2 support.

2005-01-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, By popular demand I've built testpackages of exim4 linked against db4.2. - The packages work for me(TM) but I am not doing any db-acrobatics with exim4 (like reading the list of local-parts from cyrus-imapd's internal database). I'd appreciate some testing before I upload to

Re: Please test exim4 4.43 in experimental

2005-01-09 Thread Simon Raven / Eric S. CÃtÃ
Le dim 2005-01-09 a 04:12:39 -0500, Marc Haber a dit: > Hi, > > exim4 4.43-2 has been uploaded to experimental. The exim4 maintainers > consider to upload this package for sid and sarge. For this to happen, > we need testing. > > I would like to invite all readers to test

Please test exim4 4.43 in experimental

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, exim4 4.43-2 has been uploaded to experimental. The exim4 maintainers consider to upload this package for sid and sarge. For this to happen, we need testing. I would like to invite all readers to test exim4 4.43, which can be downloaded from the experimental distribution. My machines are

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 09:53:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > >So, why can't this be done without an exim4-config package in Debian, with > >something like the following arrangement: > > exim4-daemon > > provides/conflicts: mail-transport-a

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 03:29:31 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >So, why can't this be done without an exim4-config package in Debian, with >something like the following arrangement: > > exim4-daemon > provides/conflicts: mail-transport-agent >

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:09:04AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > For example, the place I work has a package exim4-config-ilkserver > based on exim4-config-medium. That package installs without debconf > questions and contains a configuration that is suitable to our > non-main serv

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-07 Thread Tore Anderson
e" as usually is the default elsewhere in Debian (and "configuration" here is of course the complete configuration as used by Exim, not the individual files in conf.d/), short of ignoring the Debian-provided default configuration entirely, by using /e/e/exim4.conf or setting con

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:46:30PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:43:39 +1000, Anthony Towns >> wrote: >>> The one that gets installed later, Pre-Deps the one that gets installed >>> earlier. exim4-daemon Pre-Depends: e

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-07 Thread Marc Haber
exactly? >> Allowing for different configuration mechanismn. And I (as a user of >> exim4) like that very much. > >There are plenty of things that could be described that way that don't >involve having separate packages. There's a reason the word "exactly" >app

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:34:45AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Seriously, I think you need to reconsider having the configuration in > > a separate package. > > What're you trying to achieve exactly? > Allowing for different configuration mechanismn. And I (as a user

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Tore Anderson | * Marc Haber | | > The way -config does the configuration is something that is questioned | > by a lot of people. Most conservative eximists hate the configuration | > being split out in several files, | | Absolutely, this is a slight convenience for the packagers which c

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [031206 08:10]: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:46:30PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:43:39 +1000, Anthony Towns > > wrote: > > >The one that gets installed later, Pre-Deps the one that gets installed > &

Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA

2003-12-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:22:07 +0100, Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Marc Haber >> Splitting up the config file in small files was necessary to do >> debconf support, which is a Debian requirement. > Debconf support is now required? I'm flabbergasted. Could you > please point me

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