LaMont Jones wrote:
No. Maybe:
# Add settings found in /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist if you need to
# change things. But there's absolutely no reason to copy the whole
# file into place just to add one parm.
Usability: I used postfix a few times before and know to handle it. On
Debian it took me half an hour to understand just how to get the
original main.cf (actually, I didn't. I copied it from elsewhere in the
end).
Which leads immediately to the question of why you felt you needed the
entire 25KB just to tweak a couple parameters that could have been
appended to the existing main.cf
Obvious. Obvious !
This is - maybe only my - personal style.
1. It avoids typos (if I retyped the line)
2. It avoids opening any other file
I (use vi) simply /[parameter to be changed] and make the alteration 'on
the spot'. No typos, no search.
3. All explanations are there (comments)
Couldn't be less error-prone and easier !
I couldn't bother less if the .conf was 1 k or 50 k.
Everything there, in place, with comments and explanation.
Just to get it to deliver to Maildir (many users do this !):
vi main.cf /Maildir brings me to
# "Maildir/" for qmail-style delivery (the / is required).
#
#home_mailbox = Mailbox
#home_mailbox = Maildir/
One # removed; one inserted:
# Uwe for [hostname]
Now, how does Joe Averageuser get to it ? Any simpler ? *This* one, not.
No debconf, no reading, no README.Debian will get him to what he
reasonably wants. Google will tell him to uncomment a line in main.cf.
Which there isn't. In Debian.
And, if you read my initial report, after Maildir/ the mess on Debian
has just started. I want and need transport, virtual, and stuff. Where
is it ?? In my other distro, it is in /etc/postfix. No, sorry, this is
crap. Joe with debconf is happy and doesn't see these, ever.
This is an unnecessarily castrated version; with good intentions, I
concede. But with the wrong ones. Joe doesn't see these. Postfix works
out of the box for him. He has dpkg-reconfigure or else. He uses a GUI.
It would not matter what /etc/postfix contains; and even if, he can read
and open the file that he is told to.
Uwe
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