-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2013-01-24 at 08:41 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Not exactly.
You configure mail with YaST, which sets some variables in sysconfig, then runs SuSEconfigs which translates those sysconfig settings into the needed variables for postfix, fetchmail, etc.
Yes, I guess YaST supports that - I never use it though.
It's probably an example of what Cristian means - the settings in /etc/sysconfig/postfix are used to create config files.
It is one of those grey areas where the config data really belongs in /etc/postfix/, but to make it easier for the newbie and others who would rather not know about postfix, YaST adds a layer of configuration for the most often changed/needed options. The minute you want to do a little bit more, you have to give up on YaST.
YaST doesn't know how to properly edit postfix configuration, it just creates a basic configuration from the sysconfig variables. It is a one way process, it can not parse postfix configuration: it reads sysconfig. If you alter postfix directly, yast quits (or rather SuSEconfig does). If you remove sysconfig, you have to remove the postfix mail module of yast, because I don't think they have the man power to redesign it to parse /etc/postfix. So what do we do, remove sysconfig, and next a bunch of modules out of yast, which was our flagship? What do we want, a distro for profesionals that can edit postfix directly, or a distro for both profesionals and newbies, where those can use yast to create a basic but working postfix setup? Doesn't the openSUSE paper say something about that? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlEEVO4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UwngCeKyy4KUs/2i7rrPplkUXLPaai FMEAnjP4kUFZLuhur4kJsGi9eDkm1hqx =RhWm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org