On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:32:25PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:

> > I was using the rule of thumb that if 'man xxx" for some postfix daemon
> > xxx mentions a configuration variable, than xxx can be invoked in
> > master.cf and given that variable with -o.
>
> At the risk of repeating myself.
>
> The relay_domains parameter affects many Postfix processes (like,
> many different Postfix daemon programs).
>
> Giving it (i.e. the relay_domains parameter) different values to
> different processes (i.e. different relay_domains values to different
> types of Postfix daemon programs, for example, by specifying
> different values on the respective dameon command lines in the
> master.cf file) creates inconsistencies.
>
> Defining relay_domains in main.cf (the common location from which
> all Postfix daemon processes retrieve configuration settings) is
> better than specifying it only (in master.cf) on the smtpd command
> line.

This is fair enough, but it leaves me with one worry. Suddenly I can no
longer be sure which options are safe to set differently for different
instances of the same daemon.

It would be nice to know which options can be safely set differently in
different places and which should only be set once in main.cf.

Rahul

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