[Fwd: Here a « patch » to the doc]

[Ross Boylan]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:19 -0500, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Here a « patch » to the doc
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:15:57 +0100
> From: Romain Chantereau <romain at mezimail.com>
> To: 395504-quiet at bugs.debian.org
> CC: Benjamin Seidenberg <benjamin at debian.org>
> 
> Hi !
> 
> This « patch » is Debian specific as it uses the debian specific file
> "/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf".
> 
> Tell me what do you think about it
> 
> Cheers,
> 
The advice is probably a bit too simple, as there are multiple ways to
configure Debian exim4.  The patch is oriented to the "split" config of
exim4-config.  Another approach, which I think is now the default with
exim4-config, is to use the single-file configuration.  If someone is
doing that, dropping in a snippet won't necessarily change the behavior
of their system.

So the advice might be "If you are using exim4-config with a split
configuration, you can drop in the files as shown below.  Otherwise, you
need to merge this material into your own configuration file."

Finally, exim4-config is not required; people can set up their
configuration scheme.  Presumably these people know how to take care of
themselves.
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