Rahul Dhesi:
> 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.

-o is is relatively safe only for parameters that affect only one
type of program.

        Wietse

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