Eray Aslan:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 08:40:16AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > start Start the Postfix mail system. This also runs the configuration
> > check described above.
> >
> > status Indicate if the Postfix mail system is currently running.
>
> This does introduce a non-negligible delay in startup for everyone but
> yes, it is better. Thanks.
I think that making everyone wait would be another example of
well-meaning people doing things that give Postfix a bad reputation.
Examples of common maintainer-induced damage:
- Turning on IPv6 by default. SUSE does this, making remote
destinations unreachable that have five or more IPv6 addresses.
Postfix 2.9 has a defense for such brain damage.
- Turning on chroot by default. Many Debian etc. users get into
trouble when they make an innocuous configuration change to the
SMTP daemon. Postfix has no defense for this brain damage.
Wietse
