On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:24:13AM -0400, b...@bitrate.net wrote: > On Sep 27, 2014, at 07.48, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > > Use "postconf -d", not "postconf -n". -n is for settings in the > > configuration file, -d is for the built-in settings which include > > the version, release date, and so on. > > This reminds me - some time long ago, I happened to notice that > config_directory seems to be the lone exception to the postconf -n > behavior described in postconf(1). It's not of much consequence, > at least for me, but I was just curious why [assuming it's > intentional].
To support the MAIL_CONFIG environment variable and the "-c" command-line option, the value of "config_directory" is added to the key-value hash of data extracted from main.cf. This is done even when neither are specified. -- Viktor.