Josef “Jeff” Sipek

I was just looking at the source for Postfix, when I came across this function:

/* mail_conf_read - read global configuration file */

void    mail_conf_read(void)
{
    mail_conf_suck();
    mail_params_init();
}

It turns out that mail_conf_suck reads in the config file, and then mail_params_init does all the dirty work of initializing the internal data structures based on the config.

Anyway, that’s the random thought of the day. I found it marginally amusing.

Edit: the code in question is in src/global/mail_conf.c.