17 Apr
2005
17 Apr
'05
6:23 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 00:07 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Looks similar but not identical to BIND and DHCP config files, except that the commands lack terminators, limiting values to be a single line. If you expect any values to be large, it would be nice to break them across lines, and that would require a terminator (like the semicolon used in named.conf). I think the commercial version of sendmail has adopted this format, as well.
Right, but Dovecot has managed to work so far without the ability to continue lines at all, so requiring extra ';' chars would be annoying. And if line continuing is wanted, a pretty standard way to do it would be to just end line with '\'.