Bug#567504: Simplify dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

[Olaf van der Spek]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.71-3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Would it be possible to simplify exim4 config for the common case?
For a normal (web) server the defaults for "Domains to relay mail for", "Machines to relay mail for", "Keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand)?" are fine.
For "Delivery method for local mail", Maildirs seems a better option as IMAP is used more and more.

Greetings,

Olaf

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.71 #1 built 01-Jan-2010 13:39:02
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.26: (December 18, 2009)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.5
GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.5
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='testing'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:testing

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

exim4-config suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* exim4/dc_other_hostnames: testing
* exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP
  exim4/no_config: true
  exim4/hide_mailname:
  exim4/dc_postmaster: olaf
  exim4/dc_smarthost:
* exim4/dc_relay_domains:
* exim4/dc_relay_nets:
* exim4/mailname: testing
  exim4/dc_readhost:
* exim4/use_split_config: false
  exim4/exim4-config-title:
* exim4/dc_localdelivery: Maildir format in home directory
* exim4/dc_local_interfaces: 127.0.0.1 ; ::1
* exim4/dc_minimaldns: false