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On 19 Apr 2010, at 22:50, Mick wrote:
> ...
> The problem is that you'll spend an hour or two setting it all up,  
> it'll work,
> you'll never touch it again.  Then, two years later something will  
> require you
> to reconfigure it and there will be no way on this earth that you will
> remember what you did or why it made any sense at the time!  Ha,  
> ha!  :-))

To be fair, is this not mostly the case with the majority of big,  
powerful servers on *nix platforms?

I have certainly found this to be the case with Apache, Postfix and to  
a lesser extend Samba. Oh! Also syslog-ng's filtering options. The  
only text-based configuration file I've found easy to recreate has  
been that of Dovecot.

Stroller.