On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 05:16:50 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/10/2011 3:07 PM, ricardus1867 wrote: > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I installed Postfix 2.8.4 from Christian > > Roessner's PPA. > > I just went through the Debian 6.x Postfix 2.7.1 init script, and I'm > sorry to say that it appears multi instance support was never added. > Christian's init script is likely the Debian init script. You may want > to diff them to confirm. > > A working multi instance patch was submitted via the Debian bug > reporting system to the package maintainer (I linked it previously > IIRC), Lamont Jones, _4 years ago_, in July 2007. It was apparently > never accepted, and no independent alternative was created. > > Lamont replied once, in Feb 2008, over 6 months after the bug report and > patch were submitted, simply saying he wanted to "wait for upstream". > That is the first and last entry in the bug report from the maintainer. > > Thus, I would assume, as long as he's the maintainer, multi instance > support will never be added to the Debian init script. > > No reason for never implementing multi instance in Debian was given. > Maybe this was discussed elsewhere and I'm simply unaware of it.
I've discussed it with Lamont in the last few months. He is aware of it and planning on updating the Debian package, but it hasn't quite made the top of the TODO list yet. Scott K
