Wietse Venema:
> Viktor Dukhovni:
> > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:17:53PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > Will your patch be added to main source tree at any time, or is it
> > > something I'll need to tweak/modify & apply when I upgrade?
> >
> > My best guess is that Wietse will likely adopt something functionally
> > equivalent wrt the compile-time override for DEF_MAIL_OWNER and
> > DEF_SGID_GROUP.
>
> No override is needed.
>
> You can trivially set these at installation time:
>
> # make install mail_owner=foo setgid_group=bar ...
> # make upgrade mail_owner=foo setgid_group=bar ...
Also (since this thread mentioned installable packages):
make package mail_owner=foo setgid_group=bar ...
All the above work even without pre-existing main.cf file.
> You can even change mail_owner or setgid_group after Postfix
> is already installed:
>
> # postfix set-permissions mail_owner=foo setgid_group=bar ...
>
> This *is* documented.
This, of course does require a pre-existing main.cf file.
The only build-time parameter override that's needed is for
config_directory. All other parameters can be specified at
/upgrade/package time. They are configurable for a reason.
Wietse
