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Subject: Re: Answer: Configure Postfix for several profiles under Linux Mandrake 7.2
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 10:32:43 CST

Giuseppe Angilella:
> Hi everybody, and thanks those who kindly gave me suggestions.
>
> Unfortunately, I might have been a bit unclear in posing my question. Let me
> rephrase it once more, and provide the solution I've found, for the benefit
> of posterity.
>
> Question: As Mandrake ver >= 7.1 (specifically, ver = 7.2) allows defining
> several system profiles, to be chosen at bootstrap time, and to associate a
> different configuration for several processes for each of them, I wondered
> whether it could be possible to include postfix configuration in the
> linuxconf profile manager. In this way, virtual addressing and masquerading
> (etc) would follow the system's identity, ISP definition etc, which is
> especially useful when working with Linux on a laptop.

I am willing to bet a beer (OK, make that two) that it is possible.

All it takes is for someone with a recent Mandrake distribution to
look at how linuxconf makes decisions based on profile names.

        Wietse