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Re: exim4: avoiding "retry time not reached for any host"



On 2006-10-04 23:12:46 +0200, Predrag Gavrilovic wrote:
> If you chose to keep old config file, new version gets saved with
> *.dpkg-new extension. You can inspect if it has some new
> features-settings worthy of replacing old config, and manualy merge
> your specific changes.

But I said I didn't want any manual intervention:

> 2006/10/3, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>:
> >On 2006-10-02 22:55:42 +0200, Predrag Gavrilovic wrote:
> >> I don't understand you.
> >>
> >> bug 32877 is about not being able to merge old and new configuration
> >> files, and I don't think it would be smart thing to do across major
> >> version upgrades.
> >
> >I'm using testing, so that exim config files are often modified
> >(almost each time there is an upgrade).
> >
> >> And even then you allways have the option to keep the old file. Nothig
> >> gets blindly overwritten.
> >
> >Without manual intervention (which I want to avoid), there are two
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(Though a script could do what is needed, this is not a clean solution.)

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