Use the newly added mailnull user, and the now well-established group
mail.
The use of compile-time defaults for these values is not required for
many sites, but are important for more exotic applications.
This ensures that the packages are useful to the widest audience
possible.
to install and use Exim from the packages without having to install
XFree86.
* Remove a stale SEDLIST entry for BINOWN handling.
* Use LOCALBASE instead of PREFIX when referring to already installed
software.
* Use more strict pattern matching in SEDLIST.
Folks who want eximon (the Exim monitor) must now either build exim
or one of its slave ports with WITH_EXIMON defined or install the
standalone exim-monitor package.
Replace it with a patch against the distribution configure.default,
which changes as little as possible so that folks who are accustomed to
Exim on other platforms will not be astonished.
Install the file as configure.default instead of configure.sample, since
it's as close as damnit to the default Exim configuration file.
The only arguably unnecessary deviation from the default is:
* Accept SMTP relay from the loopback IP address. Too many applications
require this, and the window of abuse is arguably negligible.
run with a kernel that has had IPv6 ommitted from its configuration,
so I can't make this a default (yet).
* Remove crazy handling of exim.sh and replace it with something much
simpler and more sane. This allows non-root users to build, even if
they can't install (properly).
files/Makefile) that's been a maintenance PITA for too long. Replace it
with a patch against EDITME, now that the sed rules that operate on it
are mostly sensible.
