I didn't see it in the documentation, that's why I asked. I double checked my execution of the postconf command. I ran postconf with the -c option and I also ran postconf with postmulti both returned the same results.
Of course, now I can't reproduce what I observed before. I realize now that I hadn't disabled cfengine when I did my testing earlier and I bet my main.cf was fixed in between my edits. I should know better. Thanks for the quick response On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote: > David DeFranco: > > I read through the "Multi Instance ReadMe" and didn't see an answer for > my > > question so I thought I'd just ask. > > > > When I specify a configuration in the default instance of Postfix that > > setting seems to be inherited by the other instances. > > Where does Postfix documentation promise parameter inheritance? > > > For example: I set message_size_limit on the default instance and I > didn't > > specify a message_size_limit on an additional instance. When I check > > postconf on the non-default instance I can see that the > message_size_limit > > is set to the value of the default instance. > > I suspect that this is due to pilot error (somehow you did not > tell the postconf command to look in the right main.cf file). > > Wietse > > > I think this is great. I love being able to set things like > > message_size_limit once instead of per instance. > > > > So is this kind of configuration recommended? Or is it better to specify > > all settings in each instance? > > > > > > Thanks >
