Re: main.cf order of operation

From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Fri Mar 01 2002 - 05:45:18 EST


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:42:10AM +0100, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> (Michael Tokarev) writes:
>
> > Theodore Knab wrote:
> > >
> > > Does the order of the main.cf matter ?
> >
> > No, it doesn't.
>
> That's not entirely true. You _can_ repeat the same parameter in
> various places in the main.cf and IIRC the last value is the one which
> is used, though it's certainly not a good idea to do this.

The output of "postconf" shows the values used.

> It might be helpful to get postfix to warn when it assigns a value to
> parameter which has already been defined, but it doesn't do this at
> the moment.

It should definitely do that!

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