On 24/07/16 06:00, Michael Fox wrote: > In http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html, there is no general rule at the > top that says a filename can be used for any parameter. So it is evidently > available only for some parameters. And some of the above parameters are > indeed documented as allowing filenames (mynetworks, mydestination, > relay_domains, virtual_mailbox_domains).
Specifically, they can be specified in database tables, which can be any of the supported table types listed in postconf -m. > 1) myorigin is not documented as allowing a filename. But the Ubuntu > Postfix package sets it to /etc/mailname, which seems to work. Perhaps > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html should be updated? This is a debian modification, it is not supported by Postfix. > 5) Alternatively, I could place all of the host-specific parameters in a > file that is then included into main.cf, such as "!include > host-specific-main.cf". But I don't see an include mechanism listed. Does > it exist? It would be nice, but no. People have scripted this in the past, though, by using something like a makefile to build main.cf (and possibly master.cf) from a collection of other files. Peter
