Re: Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

[Pedro Eugênio Rocha <pedro.eugenio.rocha@gmail.com>]

Hi Stan,

I guess that explains the odd behavior. Probably the former version did not
enforce that restriction.

Thanks for the explanation


Best,

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> On 9/4/2012 10:58 AM, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote:
>
>> The weirdest thing is that it was working before the upgrade. Anyway, just
>> changing the format solves the problem, but finding where the problem was
>> gave me some headache and some email lost.  :-}
>
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html
>
> Each logical line is in the form "parameter = value". Whitespace around
> the "=" is ignored, as is whitespace at the end of a logical line.
>
> Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are lines whose
> first non-whitespace character is a `#'.
>
> A logical line starts with non-whitespace text. A line that starts with
> whitespace continues a logical line.
>
>
> Reading that carefully reveals your problem, which I already explained.
>  Whitespace at the end of a line terminates the line, making it a
> logical line.  Therefore, you cannot continue that logical line.
> Therefore, the leading space on the following 3 lines causes Postfix to
> ignore them, because logical lines begin with non-whitespace characters.
>
> Thus, never use trailing whitespace in a Postfix configuration file.
> Recent versions of Postfix are much pickier about enforcing
> main/master.cf syntax.  Postfix 2.9 even informs you of deprecated and
> unused parameter definitions in your config files.
>
> --
> Stan
>
>
>



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Pedro Eugênio Rocha