Re: sa-exim with Exim4 + Debian (Sarge)

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:56:23AM +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> It does *NOT* check if the system where it was installed has a
> monolithic configuration file, so it does *NOT* warn about manually
> having to add the configuration line. *Yet*.
 
A warn would be nice, but if people chose the monolithic format, that's
too bad for them, they should have to deal with their choice for a less
flexible option (no, I'm not biased :)

> Also, either Marc will try to move important information from the
> INSTALL file to the README file, or I will include the INSTALL file in
> the Debian package, and give it a different name.

In CVS now:
RCS file: /cvsroot/sa-exim/sa-exim/README,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -u -r1.17 README
--- README      10 Mar 2004 17:12:56 -0000      1.17
+++ README      6 May 2004 03:04:27 -0000
@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@
 See the file named INSTALL for installations instructions (either compiled
 in exim, or as a stand-alone shared library)
 
+If you got sa-exim prepackaged (like on debian), you have to make sure that
+your exim supports a dynamically loadable local_scan (which is true on debian
+and probalby on other distros too if they shipped sa-exim as a package), and
+that your exim4.conf file contains the following:
+local_scan_path = /usr/lib/exim4/local_scan/sa-exim.so
+If you are using the split configuration file on debian with the sa-exim deb
+package, you'll be fine. If you're using the monolithic file, you are on your
+own until/unless the sa-exim packages try to do an in place edit (i.e. you have
+to add the above configuration line yourself)
+

Marc
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