On Saturday 05 November 2011 05:13:22 Wietse Venema wrote: > David Southwell: > > Did you read the original posting and the reply from Kamil. He spotted > > the primary cause. It was he who spotted the extra " " before > > policyd-spf in master.cf which was in the part of the post you cut out. > > > > So you were right it was an error in the master.cf but noone else spotted > > it before Kamil made his contribution. > > You could have spotted it days ago with lsof/netstat which would > have told you immediately that postfix was not listening on the > socket. > > Wietse
Typical Wietse response. Everyone could see postfix was not listening but it took Kamil's careful scrutiny and knowledge to identify why - knowing why was what led to the solution. Diagnosis is valuable but without the ability to define the treatment the diagnosis is merely a matter of record. Clearly postfix is need of an intelligent parser that will to pinpoint errors such as this in master.cf and main.cf. That is because stupid computers are better at parsing chores than human beings. David
