Re: default MTA
On Friday, June 14, 2013 02:31:45, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:42:15 -0400, Chris Knadle
>
> <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
> >So right now I think that I probably just didn't know that this had been
> >fixed, because I haven't been using the "split file" configuration for
> >along time. I clearly remember having _upgrade_ problems in 2003 with
> >Exim on Debian Testing, but I might be confusing the root cause of those
> >problems at that time; there are occasional required configuration
> >changes, and that's another possible cause.
I should explain the above a bit further; when using the "split file"
configuration and choosing "N" to certain config file updates, that leaves
behind several .dpkg-dist config files. If the upgrade goes badly because of
required configuration changes, the first thing that catches one's eye are the
.dpkg-dist files, making it _seem_ as though they could have been the root
cause, even if they're not. ;-)
> In 2003 the exim4 packages were in a kind of steady flux, everything
> was new back than. The old exim 3 packages worked totally different. I
> fully understand that exim4 2003 might have had serious and bad bugs,
> but I think that most of them have been ironed out by now.
Yes I ran Exim3 for a while also, so I know what you mean. With Exim4 I think
it was the "in flux" part that got me at the time concerning upgrades, which
was exaserbated by my running Testing on the server.
> That doesn't mean that I am not going to break exim during the jessie
> release cycle, but Andreas is there to fix it ;-)
If that happens, it's fixable. ;-)
-- Chris
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