Re: Upgrading from Exim 3 to 4
On Monday 26 April 2004 18:10, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> 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.
I think that a while (six months?) ago the exim4 package did not make it
clear that you could do this, but I agree that the installation now is
nice.
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