Thanks a lot Noel!! what you say makes sense but then i should have seen some "reload" or "restart" messages in the log, right?? but there was not any indication! :-(
Thanks! David. -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 3/3/16, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote: Subject: Re: main.cf and postfix reload To: postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016, 6:29 PM On 3/3/2016 11:07 AM, Pedro David Marco wrote: > Hello everybody... > > i have added a line like this: > > > recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_bcc > > > to my main,.cf file and postfix has suddenly started trying to use it!! > > i did NOT execute a "postfix" reload" !!! is this normal?????? > > Thanks! > > David. > Most of the postfix processes exit and restart periodically as part of normal operation. When a process restarts it will read the current settings from main.cf and master.cf. http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#max_use http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#max_idle So yes, this is normal. -- Noel Jones
