On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:50:51AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I've just updated from 2.8.5 to 2.9.1 and now, when I start > postfix, I am getting the following set of messages (that I've > never seen before): > > > /usr/local/sbin/postconf: warning: /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf: > unused parameter: policy_time_limit=600 snip * 16 > > What gives? I haven't changed anything. The relevant line in my > main.cf file is unremarkable: > > policy_time_limit = 600
Unremarkable, except that nothing in the configuration uses it. > Why should this cause the generation of 17 exceptionally redundant > warning messages? Why should it give rise to any warning messages > at all? See the release notes for 2.9 and the new features as documented in the postconf(1) manual. You were lucky, you only had one unused parameter. IIRC I had 3, yielding a barrage of ~51 warnings. :) -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
