On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: > After making the changes where only I was explicitly setting things to what > I needed them to be versus the default the postfix system seems faster, too!
This is an optical illusion. Removing default settings simplifies your configuration for a human reader, but has no performance impact. Postfix defaults change from time to time, and unless you have a particular reason to explicity chose the current default value, it is best to let future Postfix releases run with the defaults for the release in question. -- Viktor.