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

["Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

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 a good situation.
What do you think about it and what would be a good way to solve it?

Please CC me.

Greetings,

Olaf

On 11/9/06, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> tags #397646 wontfix
> user exim4@packages.debian.org
> 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 local mail only by default, reportbug
> > can no longer send emails to the BTS. I'm not sure how this should be
> > solved and by which package, but I think it's an undesired situation
> > to have by default.
>
> *sigh*
>
> A wonder it took so long time for this bug to be filed for the first
> time.
>
> See #392609.
>
> The exim4 maintainers were strongly urged by the installer guys to
> have exim refrain from asking configuratino questions during install
> and have complied reluctantly. That meant choosing a default, and - of
> course - regardless of what you choose as the default the choice is
> considered wrong by everybody.
>
> To make it short: Please take this to debian-devel or to the tech ctte
> to have them tell me what to choose as default. I don't care. And I am
> not going to change this default just to have somebody else complain a
> day later.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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