Postfix mods and 10.3 Server Admin tool?

[hotmop]

I’ve been reading the article on using SpamAssassin with Postfix on 10.3.

https://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/postfix-sa.html

My one question…. Do any Postfix configs get wiped out if I use the 10.3 Server Admin application afterwards?

This article, though it mentions use with 10.3, seems to assume that one is installing Postfix. Which is not the case with 10.3. What are the side effects if one is trying to stay “under the tent” with Apple admin tools and such.

This issue is why I never could use previous Exim solutions. I have some non-unix admins that only want to use Apple’s tools.

[Anonymous]

i haven’t done extensive testing, but my experience has been that the Apple Admin GUI for mail *does* store its settings independent of the Postfix config files, and if you make changes to fields that are modifiable in the GUI, or strip out settings set by the GUI, they will be replaced / reincorporated into the file if you use the GUI afterwards. That being said, the GUI does not appear to modify any NON-Apple settings, so if you *add* to the config files, those additions will persist. that being said, on the few occasions i go into the Apple GUI, I *always* back up my config files first.
it’d be nice if the apple GUI provided a little more access to the postfix config options, though it’d be pretty tough to make a foolproof GUI, given the wide range of options in postfix. i’m also hoping one of these days apple will give us sieve as part of the cyrus install (as i’m loathe to try and compile it myself, especially since i don’t have a spare box to experiment on at the moment…)

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