[Gllug] exim segfault puzzle

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sat Jan 5 13:36:02 UTC 2008


Richard Jones wrote:
> Final proof that whoever maintains Debian exim4 is smoking something
> very potent:
>
>   If you decide to ignore this advice and to use this script anyway,
>   setting the environment variable CONVERT4R4 to the value
>   "I understand this is an unsupported tool"
>   will allow you to run the script. If you find bugs, you get to keep
>   the pieces. Please do not file bugs against this script in the Debian
>   BTS without providing a patch fixing the bugs, and please do not
>   expect the upstream exim-users mailing list to answer questions.

I interpret this is as "we think you're smoking crack if you use this 
tool, so we're going to make things a tiny bit inconvenient for you to 
do so."

You are almost certainly making a mistake by using this tool, you're 
much better off taking the time to learn exim4 instead.  It's not that 
difficult.


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