From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 18:05:14 CDT

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Bryan Koschmann - GKT:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Unfortunately, this is like a feature request without design or
> > implementation. It is just more work on the TODO list.
> >
> > The feature request can at least be expressed in simple terms (I
> > want to exclude user <foo> from header/body_checks, or I want to
> > bounce a particular message from the queue).
>
> That is a good point, that the changes should be contributed as well,
> however, that is only possible once you have it up and working. Back to
> the catch-22.

The only way to go is: start simple.

You have a working Postfix system with the out of the box main.cf
and master.cf files.

Add one feature at a time. Before going to LDAP or SQL, make it
work with hash tables first. Test SASL in isolation until you have
tamed the monster.

Whenever Postfix stops working, take one step back, isolate the
change, test the problematic component in isolation until the proper
results emerge. And so on.

And last but not least, don't use chroot until Postfix works first.

        Wietse

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