Uwe Dippel wrote:
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:18:02 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Postfix is not one single package. For example I have (dpkg-query --
list | grep postfix):
postfix 2.1.5-9 A high-performance mail transport agent
postfix-doc 2.1.5-9 Postfix documentation
postfix-mysql 2.1.5-9 MYSQL map support for Postfix
postfix-pcre 2.1.5-9 PCRE map support for Postfix
Thanks for the answer; though unconvincing. Don't see any reason why we
have a castrated package and no obvious way to get a full one. Yes, I
tried dpkg-reconfigure, but it never proposed a full install.
I saw the postfix-doc, but I don't really need it. vi main.cf usually
gets me where I want.
I don't want MySQL neither, so why install ? I don't need perl-stuff,
neither. So why install ?
I would understand a cut-down /etc/postfix with a full one elsewhere; but
then reconfigure should ask and enable it.
He, am I the only one missing transport maps and stuff ??
You can check http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html for main.cf
options.
I know this URL. "Why make things easy when you can make them complicated
?" It is much easier to find all options in an option file; with empty
fields or commented; then an empty option file and up to the user to
search, find and copy & paste these options into the options file and set
them properly. Really wonder who invented this folly !?
I understand your frustration, I am not long to Debian and I only set up
postfix a couple of weeks back. Looking back I was frustrated that I
didn't really know what packages contained what, or what I needed to
install to get the funtionality I needed. Just the other day trying to
get clamav to scan emails sent to it from postfix I was beating my head
against the wall trying to figure out how to get clamav to listen on
port 1002x where postfix expects it. In the end I discovered the
clamsmtp package. It also doesn't help that most/many howto documents on
the web assume you have all the funtionality you need with one install
(as per some other distro's).
I do however like it this way now that I know a bit more about how it
works. It does reduce uneeded functionality (and therfore improving
security) and keeps down package sizes.
Brett
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