Postfix's main.cf

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Oct 26 14:28:51 PDT 2008


On Oct 26, 2008, at 10:10, Charles Darwin wrote:

> I have two main.cf here:
>
> $ ls /Volumes/neo/opt/etc/postfix/main*
> /Volumes/neo/opt/etc/postfix/main.cf.default	/Volumes/neo/opt/etc/ 
> postfix/main.cf.sample
>
> I am guessing that I should go with the default one if want to make  
> any changes (is that correct?) and then do I rename the file to  
> main.cf when I am done?

You should not edit either main.cf.default or main.cf.sample; these  
will be overwritten when you upgrade or reinstall the port and  
postfix won't use them anyway. You should copy one of these files to  
main.cf and edit that.



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