Sorry for the necropost, but I have to agree with Foxpup.

I would love the ability to set the minimum fee for transactions that my local node creates, independently of the minimum fee that will be required in order to accept transactions from others.

(earlier question removed, it seems not to be necessary anymore)

Nice, on IRC sipa told me of a third setting!  Simply use the -txfee command line option.  So, we do have 3 knobs to turn:

"mintxfee" in bitcoin.conf = Affects mined blocks that my node solves (I should be so lucky!)

"minrelaytxfee" in bitcoin.conf = Affects relayed transactions that my node receives from others

-txfee on command line (not bitcoin.conf) = Affects wallet transactions that my node originates

Is this right?

Josh