On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:42:27AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > [root@mail-gw:~]$ postconf -n | grep config_directory
> > config_directory = /etc/postfix
>
> You're welcome to fix that. I'm now working on other things,
> supporting per-milter and per-policy service settings.
There's a subtlety here. Lots of settings in main.cf use
${config_directory}, so that needs to be set early to the "-c"
option value, $MAIL_CONFIG in the environment or finally the
compiled-in default value. Because of "catch-22" none of these
come from main.cf itself. So that value is pushed into the parameter
dictionary early, before main.cf is read. Otherwise it would have
to be added to the configuration dictionary in one of two places:
* Before reading main.cf, but only if explicitly passed in via
the environment or the "-c" option.
* After loading main.cf, but only if not already set.
There would still be anomalies, for example when looking at "postconf
-n" via postmulti(1), the MAIL_CONFIG environment variable will be
set by postmulti(1) to indicate the desired instance even when that
instance is the default instance. And for non-default instances
it is still useful to see "config_directory" reported, though it
is most likely is not (and should not be) set in main.cf itself.
postmulti -i instance -x postconf -n
--
Viktor.
