On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:32:34PM -0600, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> That is, I deliberately banish all references to NIS from
> main.cf.  (I might need the NIS client libraries to compile
> and link but I don't care about that.)  postfix does not
> (in that case) use NIS for anything, right?

rob0@harrier:~$ /usr/sbin/postconf | grep nis:
rob0@harrier:~$ /usr/sbin/postconf -d | grep nis:
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases

The former is MY settings (I have banished "nis:"), and the latter is 
the postconf(5) default. Note that if alias_maps is not actually set 
in your main.cf, you might be referring to NIS by default.

>  I could firewall
> the ports closed and nothing bad happens, correct?

If you're using the alias_maps default and NIS is not available, a 
warning is logged. The cure for that warning is to do what I did: 
have alias_maps set in main.cf and NOT including the "nis:" part.
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