Bug#712987: exim4: Include port number in error messages

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek at gmail.com
Wed Jun 26 13:46:31 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Could you include port numbers in error messages?
>> I accidently used a single colon instead of a double colon and had to run tcpdump to find out what went wrong.
>
> That's a valid point, but I don't think that we should locally patch
> exim to do this. Would you be willing to file an upstream bug for
> this, so that we do not unilaterally break the well-known log format?

I could, but why don't you?
You're the maintainer. ;)

BTW, a debconf check on that input field would be nice too.



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