On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, David Lord wrote: > On 4 Jan 2010 at 9:27, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, David Lord wrote: > > > > > I think Davide prefers the xmail options all to be in commandline > > > whilst I'd prefer an xmail.conf but it's not that important an > > > issue for me. My commandline options are set in /etc/rc.d/xmail > > > but on linux I've no idea. > > > > Let me be clear again on that. > > People wanted command line arguments inside the server.tab file, which is > > NOT the place from them. Command line arguments are parsed one at program > > startup, and changing them after that results in nothing, since the > > actions and configuration that are driven by them, are only performed at > > boot time. > > The server.tab file has, and had always been, a configuration file whose > > options can be changed at any time, and immediately after are they visible > > to the user. > > The server.tab file is NOT the correct place for command line options. > > Another file, like conf.tab or something, might be. Although do you really > > need an extra file to pass comand line options, when you have the > > environment (on Unix) and the registry (on Windows)? > > I see that point very well and agree with it, it's just > that to me /etc/rc.d/ seems a strange and forgetable > place for configuration options. It's easy enough to > arrange to pick up the commandline parameters from > rc.conf or rc.local though so I might try that.
The problem with the "extra" configuration file, is where XMail finds it w/out having to specify at least one command line option (the MAIL_ROOT path), considering that it is possible to run multiple copies of XMail on the same box. Typical Unix way would be an "/etc/xmail.conf", which would fit a single XMail install. On Windows likely "%WINDIR%\xmail.conf". One rule could be: 1) Look for "/etc/xmail.conf" or "%WINDIR%\xmail.conf" 2) Look for "/val/MailRoot/xmail.conf" or "C:\MailRoot\xmail.conf" Still, w/out an -Ms parameter, this will only fit a single XMail install setup. - Davide _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
