From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 18:38:18 CDT

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On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:35:27PM -0700, Andy Boyett wrote:

> I am deploying multiple mail servers that are largely going to have the
> same configuration, only a few items will differ (hostname, interface,
> some of the aliases, etc.) I planned to break up the configs, into
> common config files, and machine specific config files. The common
> configs would contain all of the settings that are the same on all three
> servers, and settings that differed would be contained in files with
> names following a naming scheme such as "main.<machine name>.cf" Samba
> has this implemented, the variable %m is used to store the
> machine/hostname and configurations can be sourced via this method.
>
> I have not been able to find anything similar implemented in postfix,
> not even an Include directive. If this is not possible in Postfix, is
> there a reason it has been kept out, or has there just been no demand?
> This would make if far easier to maintain the servers as the configs are
> kept in a CVS repository and I had planned to periodically update them
> via cron.
>

The stock answer is "man make"... Make can combine all your config
fragments into a single configuration file. You can even use m4 if you
are feeling nostalgic... :-)

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        Viktor.

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