Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:32:04AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Until now, Postfix has a default setting "append_dot_mydomain = yes".
> > This performs autocompletion from user@host to user@host.$mydomain.
> > But this default setting is becoming problematic.
> >
> > I need to find out what will break when the default is changed to "no".
>
> Question:
>
> * Will "postfix upgrade-configuration" install a backwards-compatible
> override when upgrading systems in which the parameter is not set
> in main.cf? And in fresh installs will the parameter be explicitly
> set to "no"?
Why do you think that I am sending out this query to the list? I
cannot count on down-stream distros to implement such workarounds,
as we found out with smtpd_relay_restrictions which they refused
to implement. I had to change the built-in default in a stable
release, and don't want to have to do that again.
Wietse
