Jan Kohnert wrote: > Stan Hoeppner schrieb: >> Jan Kohnert put forth on 6/3/2010 5:55 PM: >>> Or let the Debian people write that patch for their version, as their >>> users are apparently the only ones who comlain and such a fix could >>> probably mess up more postfix-experienced users... ;) >> Please don't paint the Debian user base with such a large brush. > > Maybe it got lost due to the language, but: my comment was just sarcasm. Only > brain-damaged users would remove neccessary parameters out off the config > file > while expecting things to work somehow out-of-the-box by magic. It's just > like > removing DocumentRoot from the Apache config and then hoping some mechanism > sets it to /home/$user/public_html, just because *one* *special* *user* > thinks, this would be a fine default... > > And after all, I like most of the things the Debian people do...
No worries, I'll stop rattling the can now. After being called brain-damaged and other things I'd just like to set straight the problem I was reporting; postfix claims FQDN auto- detection but then does it differently from 'hostname -f', which I used to consider the authorative way to do it. The docs for 'myhostname' even explicitly state "The default is to use the fully-qualified domain name from gethostname()", which makes no sense as gethostname() does not normally return a FQDN. However, I learned from Wietse that this was a conscious design decision and from responses like yours that there's obviously no interest in revisiting it. So with that, no hard feelings. I'll make sure to not bother you guys again. Cheers
