Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> writes: > On 9/4/2012 10:58 AM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote: > >> The weirdest thing is that it was working before the upgrade. Anyway, just >> changing the format solves the problem, but finding where the problem was >> gave me some headache and some email lost. :-} > > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html > > Each logical line is in the form "parameter = value". Whitespace around > the "=" is ignored, as is whitespace at the end of a logical line. > > Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are lines whose > first non-whitespace character is a `#'. > > A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A line that starts with > whitespace continues a logical line. > > > Reading that carefully reveals your problem, which I already explained. > Whitespace at the end of a line terminates the line, making it a > logical line.
That's flawed: If whitespace at the end of a line is ignored, it cannot terminate the line and you can have as much whitespace as you like at the end of lines. > Therefore, you cannot continue that logical line. > Therefore, the leading space on the following 3 lines causes Postfix to > ignore them, because logical lines begin with non-whitespace characters. You say above that a line starting with whitespace continues a logical --- I would call it a virtual --- line. If the virtual line was already terminated because there was (non-ignored) whitespace before(!) the end of the line (whatever "end of the line" means; there is really no whitespace in that sense /in between/ lines), then an error should have been reported instead of just ignoring "random" lines that are not whitespace-only and do not begin with a '#'. In case the devs of postfix have made a conscious decision to make use of whitespace in such an unusual way, I'd rather not use postfix because I'd be in for too many surprises. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gs92to3....@yun.yagibdah.de
