On Wed Mar 12 14:38 -0500, tarvid wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2003 13:49, Levi Ramsey wrote:
> > I think forcing anybody who wants to use Postfix to receive mail from
> > outside to do the (minimal and well-documented) configuration change
> > manually is a good thing.
> The Mandrake changes are mostly needed by the Mandrake directory structure.
> 
> There are two Mandrake changes to which I object:
> inet_interfaces = localhost

That's the only one I was commenting on.  I don't think Mandrake should
enable Postfix for anything but local send and receive by default.

> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN
> 
> They both break postfix and they are both unnecessary.

Uh... I've run Postfix with that very mailbox_command for the past year
without a hint of breakage.

> Postfix will not run without hostname and domainname.
> 
> There are not configured in /etc/sysconfig/network by default.

That's a genuine problem, which has nothing to do with my comment.
You're conflating at least two (quite possibly three) wholly unrelated
"issues", of which, as I see it, only one is valid.

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