On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com>wrote:
> > Do you understand what I meant by ^^^ that? It really does make working > with postfix easier if you comment out 'defaults'... I cut my postconf > -n output in half by doing this. > > Just compare output of postconf -d (gives you the defaults) and postconf > -n, and comment out any of the settings that are identical. > You were right! Half of my config was setting defaults ;) After making the changes where only I was explicitly setting things to what I needed them to be versus the default the postfix system seems faster, too! > > Well, I guess it could matter, since it reads them in the specified > order. I would recommend changing it, but only you can say if your use > case needs the order reversed for some specific reason. I would > investigate it further though. > I made the change. Better to have it the way other admins would expect it. > > Naahh... it won't hurt anything, it's just 'not standard', which would > kind of bug me if it was my server, but then I'm a bit too picky about > things sometimes... ;) > I see. Might be a good idea to change sometime in the future, then. > > Be sure to fix this ^^^ one too... > > Oh - in case you didn't know - if you set a parameter twice in postfix, > 'the last one wins', meaning, the one closest to the end of main.cf... > > This is actually a nice behavior - I take advantage of it by simply > adding a block at the very end of the file, with *all* of my settings > all together in one place. It makes it much easier to read my settings, > and I always know mine will take precedence no matter what is defined > above... > Fixed per what I wrote above. Just made my configuration file have my settings and nothing else. > > >> Well, that's about all my inexperience can come up with... > > > Thanks so much for your time. > > No problem - I remember my first post doing the same exact thing - > sanity check on my config... :) > > Yep. correct. Regards, Christopher Koeber > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles >
