Am 06.11.2011 10:22, schrieb David Southwell: > Hence thoughtful engineers incorporate diagnostic parsers and html > configuration tools. IMHO postfix has been very slow to develop an apporocah > which places the needs of system administrators in the forefront of its > development strategy.
what exactly are you missing what cat, grep, more and tail can not do with logfiles? > People make mistakes. Even the most experienced administrators. > Administrators > are not primarily programmers. They look at configuration files. During a > busy > day they do not want the hassle of having to ask themselves the question > "What > do spaces do in this .config .cf file?" please speak for you and not for "the admininstrators" > Good configuration files make their formatting requirement obvious. > That is why I say the use of " " is, in an administrator's context, idiotic. i would call idiotic a beginner who is to lazy to learn > It is idiotic because it demands that adminstrator to ask himself/he > rself the question is this " " significant or insignificant. When there are > hundreds of " " in a file the luckless adminstrator has too much on his/her > plate when trying to fix a problem as quickly as possible. bullshit if <ou have any problem to see with one look what the spaces on the following config-snippet are doing you should stop to play administrator because you are the wrong person in th wrong job you can write this all in ONE LINE if you want and the space was invited to make it more readable proxy_read_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-mynetworks.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-mydestination.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-recipients.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-rewritedomains.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-rewritesenders.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-transport.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-sender_relay_hosts.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-sender_relay_hosts_auth.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-aliases.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-senderaccess.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-spamfilter.cf proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-forwarders.cf smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_unknown_helo_hostname smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_unlisted_sender reject_authenticated_sender_login_mismatch permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_unknown_recipient_domain reject_unauth_destination reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname reject_invalid_hostname reject_unauth_pipelining check_recipient_access proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-spamfilter.cf
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