On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:09:19 -0400 Phil Howard <ttip...@gmail.com> articulated:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 09:56, Charles Marcus > <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote: > > On 2010-06-01 8:39 AM, Phil Howard wrote: > >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 17:30, Charles Marcus wrote: > >>> Of course it is meant for people, but it is meant to show only the > >>> bare minimum of what postfix sees as the settings. It is left up > >>> to you, the sys admin, to be able to interpret the data as > >>> presented, bearing in mind all caveats (ie, that last setting > >>> wins)... > > > >> And that caveat was something I was not aware of, as it is an usual > >> method. > > > > That's why reading man pages is usually a good idea... ;) > > Yes. And if Postfix were not such a large and complex MTA (not that > others aren't), and if the complexities of getting things working > between Postfix and Dovecot were not so hard (if Postfix and Dovecot > had supported a common file format for listing users and their crypt > passwords, this would have taken a lot less of my time), I might have > had time to read it all. Unfortunately, working at a startup does not > afford such luxury. > > Postfix's great advantage is that it supports so many ways to do > things. > > Postfix's great disadvantage is that it supports so many ways to do > things. > > I should have also just blown off all the people trying to get me to > use SQL and such, instead of debating them (which was just a waste of > time). I have and use common data bases in MySQL that are shared between Postfix & Dovecot. Of course, it has to be properly designed. -- Jerry dovecot.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
