Bug#817244: exim4-base: cron noise re environment

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-03-15 Matthew Vernon <mcv21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
[...]
> Specifically, it seems that

> add_environment = <; PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

> Is what is needed. Maybe the NEWS or README.Debian entry should mention
> this?

Hello,

What specific breakage were you experiencing without PATH? FWIW I am
running successfully without. (Nothing fancy, just MX for my domain with
spamassassin.)

I had some discussion about this with upstream (on exim-dev list) and it
boils down to: Often, an empty environment works fine, everything else
depends on the specific local installation. "We can't provide a sensible
default, as it depends on the users need and system environment." Afaict
the setting we have chose for Debian (empty environment) is the correct
one for the Debian config. (If not, please yell.) Documentation for
custom, special circumstances wis imho not placed best in a Debian
specifc documentation but should be integrated upstream.

cu Andreas
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