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Re: Missing postfix file main.cf.default



Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 04:06:41PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> 
>> Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > I just lost a few mails because the main.cf, which is shipped
>> > with NetBSD, contains only a very limited set of configuration
>> > examples.
>> 
>> I don't follow.  Can you be more specific?
>
> The size limits are not listed so a mail will bounce if the spool file
> gets too big, which was not an issue with sendmail.
>
> I checked the example main.cf before and there was nothing mentioned
> about the limits so I assumed that there are sane and would have been
> more cautious if I knew the actual limits.

So you mean

  you didn't change the size limits explicitly, and were surprised that
  your MTA rejected messages that were over 10 MB?

(I am finding your descriptions to be hard to understand precisely.)

>> > It looks like there is normally a main.cf.default installed but
>> > we do not have it.
>> 
>> Did you look at:
>> /usr/share/examples/postfix/main.cf
>
> Sure but it only contains a fraction of all options.

Perhaps you can propose a diff; perhaps main.cf.default belongs in
/usr/share/examples/postfix/.  It seems like a documentation file, not a
file that is actually read.

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