On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 06:00:59PM +0530, Nitin N wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 4:44 pm Bastian Blank, <bastian+postfix-users=
> postfix....@waldi.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 12:45:21PM +0530, Nitin N wrote:
> > > I checked out master_service_disable at here
> > > <http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#master_service_disable> but I
> > > am a bit uncertain of how I should use it.
You're supposed to turn it off when ready:
MULTI_INSTANCE_README:
...
Setting up the "output" Postfix instance
...
Then create the output instance:
# postmulti -I postfix-out -G mta -e create
...
The new instance will be created in a "disabled" state:
/etc/postfix-out/main.cf
#
# ... "stock" main.cf settings ...
#
multi_instance_name = postfix-out
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix-out
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix-out
#
multi_instance_enable = no
master_service_disable = inet
authorized_submit_users =
Sice "postmulti" has no idea which IP addresses (if any) you'll want to
assign to the new instance, and because at most one instance can use
a given IP:port combination (and 0.0.0.0:port excludes all other uses
of the port), new instances have all IP listeners disabled.
After instructions to complete configuring the instance, including
setting explicit "inet_interfaces", the documentation goes on to say:
With the "output" configuration in place, enable and start the instance:
1 # postmulti -i postfix-out -x postconf -e \
---> 2 "master_service_disable =" "authorized_submit_users = root"
3 # postmulti -i postfix-out -e enable
4 # postmulti -i postfix-out -p start
> > Well. Did you understand what it does?
>
> Yes from the nullclient point of view yes I have understood as its
> relaying and hence doesn't require services from its master.cf to be
> started.
>
> I am not sure why if at all I should be disabling it in the main.cf of the
> other instances. I haven't understood that part.
Well, if you leave "inet" services disabled, naturally you get no TCP
listeners running.
--
Viktor.
