Re: Upgrading from Exim 3 to 4

["Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-04-26, Adam Funk penned:
> On Monday 26 April 2004 14:10, Col @ Home wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> I am considering upgrading from Exim 3 to 4. Will I be able to use
>> the same alias files I currently use to direct mail? How different is
>> the configuration?
>
> /etc/aliases stays the same.
>
> You can't directly re-use exim.conf from Exim 3, however.  You'll have
> to "translate" it into Exim 4.  The overall file format is similar,
> but some of the details differ.
>
> The Debian exim4 package promotes using a zillion specialized little
> files in /etc/exim4/conf.d which get concatenated, but you don't have
> to do it that way (as I discovered after getting fed up and compiling
> it myself to get around this).  If you create an /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
> file, exim4 will use that instead.

When I upgraded to exim4 on unstable, it gave me the option of many baby
conf files or one big one ("monolithic") -- I seem to recall it saying,
"If you're unsure, go monolithic."  Anyway, you *can* choose monolithic
at install time.

-- 
monique