On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:32:34PM -0600, Jay G. Scott wrote: > That is, I deliberately banish all references to NIS from > main.cf. (I might need the NIS client libraries to compile > and link but I don't care about that.) postfix does not > (in that case) use NIS for anything, right?
rob0@harrier:~$ /usr/sbin/postconf | grep nis: rob0@harrier:~$ /usr/sbin/postconf -d | grep nis: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases The former is MY settings (I have banished "nis:"), and the latter is the postconf(5) default. Note that if alias_maps is not actually set in your main.cf, you might be referring to NIS by default. > I could firewall > the ports closed and nothing bad happens, correct? If you're using the alias_maps default and NIS is not available, a warning is logged. The cure for that warning is to do what I did: have alias_maps set in main.cf and NOT including the "nis:" part. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
