On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Other than that, do the solution and documentation make sense?
I for one this is a sound idea. I said as much back in Feb 2004:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2004-02/1020.html
While we are talking about transitional settings, it has become
clear to me that Postfix needs something along the lines of
the "sendmail.cf" "V" macro, which indicates the version of
the configuration file.
When upgrading a Postfix configuration one needs to know which
version one is upgrading from, and the only plausible source
of this information is the old configuration file.
Without such a configuration parameter, one ends up installing
transition hacks for every old release, even after the user
has long adapted his configuration and no longer needs transitional
settings.
There were further comments that suggested automatically updating
the main.cf compatibility level after running "postfix
upgrade-configuration". Those are less important than the outline
above.
--
Viktor.
