Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using postfix 3.0.0

On Wed, Mar 25 2015, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 22:34:10 -0400, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
>> Then I run for a while, check the logs and issue the appropriate
>> postconf commands.
>
> Yes, exactly.
>
> You can also manually go through the settings mentioned in the
> "Overview" section of COMPATIBILITY_README, to see if anything needs
> changing in main.cf/master.cf. That's what I did.
>
>> Not so clear is when do you turn off backwards compatibility (i.e. set
>> the level).  Does postfix determine the level right away or should I let
>> it run for a few weeks so it sees a lot of mail?
>
> The documentation is not clear on this, but I don't think there's any
> kind of logic behind the compatibility level postfix mentions in its
> log - it's just the hard-coded version specifier, the "most recent"
> compatibility level.
>
> You can turn off the safety net once you made sure that postfix is
> configured the way you want; that is, once you made sure that no more
> backwards-compatible default settings would need to be made permanent.
>
> For example, relay_domains used to default to $mydestination. With
> postfix 3.0.0, it defaults to:
> relay_domains = ${{$compatibility_level} < {2} ? {$mydestination} : {}}
>
> If you rely on the default setting of relay_domains (i.e. you don't set
> it explicitly in main.cf) you may need to change it now.

Thanks.

It now looks as though my test machine does work; I forgot to restart
postfix.  So today when I booted it up it does seem to process mail.

Thanks again,
allan