From: Jorey Bump (listjoreybump.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2008 - 17:05:26 CDT

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alanpatriot.net wrote, at 04/08/2008 05:09 PM:

> And I fear I must here mention again: procmail is nowhere
> mentioned in _my_ files in /etc/postfix (main.cf master.cf etc)

The complete configuration is not represented by main.cf. The output of
postconf -n merely shows settings that are explicitly set in main.cf
(and might differ from the defaults). Settings not present in main.cf
use the defaults. These are in the output of postconf -d. If someone
made procmail a default, it might be there:

   postconf -d | grep procmail

>> 4. If a distribution has a default Postfix configuration which differs
>> from the default defaults (if you see what I mean), then it is up to
>> them to document that.
> I'm afraid I _don't_ see that. The postfix community here, from
> Wietse on down, is pretty adamant that a) postfix should and
> usually does work out of the box; and b) if it doesn't it is
> someone else's fault. "This is no way to run a railroad", as
> my grandfather used to say.

What would you say to a student who performed poorly on a test and
claimed that "calculus should work out of the box"? I imagine you'd tell
him to quit whining and hit the books. You're never going to learn
everything there is to know about email server administration, and the
postfix developers can't document every possible permutation of
settings. Nonetheless, they provide a solid, flexible platform that can
meet the needs of a surprisingly large number of environments. The
documentation is some of the best and most concise I've ever seen, but
the problem domain is complex, so expect a steep learning curve.

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