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On 2/2/2015 9:44 PM, David Barr wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:27 AM, David Barr <david20708@...> wrote:
>> When I updated this package it wiped out my old email.conf. Is there a
>> way to accept updates without having to restore the config file each
>> time?
>
> I guess I can always make a ~/.email.conf, but it seems like a bug
> that the package would wipe out config file changes without a warning.
>

the usual way should be to have a
/etc/defaults/etc/email.conf

and the postinstall script should copy it in
/etc/email.conf

only if the file is not already present.

Regards
Marco


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