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Bug#404421: marked as done (please document changes to installer handling of exim4)

Your message dated Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:43:53 +0100
with message-id <20070320014353.GC23539@javifsp.no-ip.org>
and subject line New paragraph included in the Release notes
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere.  Please contact me immediately.)

Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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Package: installation-guide

Hi,

in the installation guide, at
  http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s03.html

there is a discussion of "Configuring Your Mail Transport Agent" that
no longer reflects the debian installer (at least as of rc1 or later).

In the d-i tree the text is at
   trunk/manual/en/using-d-i/modules/pkgsel.xml


Instead of asking all installers these somewhat complex questions
about the type of mail transfer required, the installation program
no longer asks any questions at all about MTA setup[*].
What it does instead is automatically defaults to a 'local delivery'
setup, if you select the "standard system" item in tasksel.
(If you don't select "standard system", exim4 is not installed.)

[*] In the usual mode of installation.
    Questions might be asked if you set debconf/priority=low, but I
    have not tested this.

I'm not sure what form the patch should take.

I think the whole subsection should be moved to part of the manual,
maybe an appendix, since it is a little analogous to the complexities
of partitioning. It's also something you may want to go back to and
tweak once you have the basic system installed.


I think this change in the way the installer works should be noted in
the release notes as well. Could someone duplicate this bug and file
against release-notes?

see bug #401007 for an example of me tripping over this change.

Kind regards
Vince

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I've added the following paragraph in the "Mayor changes" section of the d-i:

             <tag>Simplified mail configuration</tag> <item><p>The
             installation system setups a basic configuration for the
             system's mail server which will only provide for local e-mail
             delivery, if the "standard system" is installed. The mail server
             will be unavailable to other systems connected to the same
             network.  If you want to configure your system to handle e-mail
             not local to the system (either to send e-mail or to receive it)
             you will have to reconfigure the mail system after
             installation.</p></item>

Hopefully this closes this bug.

Regards

Javier

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