On dovecot

Mauricio Tavares raubvogel at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 04:31:06 UTC 2013


      So I have used dovecot 1.2.9  on 10.04LTS. And now will be using
2.X in 12.04LTS. And here are some of my thoughts/request for
clarification on the server docs:

1. A lot of stuff in
https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/serverguide/dovecot-server.html should
also be in https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/dovecot-server.html
for I believe they have a very similar dovecot version. At least I can
tell you dovecot2 in 12.04LTS does support the new

ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem format. Since it is the LTS
version, i think the doc should be current, and stealing from the
13.04 one might be the easiest way.

2. In 10.04, dovecot in ubuntu had two separate config files,
/etc/dovecot/auth.d/01-dovecot-postfix.auth
and
/etc/dovecot/conf.d/01-dovecot-postfix.conf

But now in 12.04 dovecot has only the conf.d directory with a ton of
files in it.

ls conf.d/
01-mail-stack-delivery.conf  15-lda.conf          90-sieve.conf
10-auth.conf                 20-imap.conf         auth-deny.conf.ext
10-director.conf             20-managesieve.conf  auth-master.conf.ext
10-logging.conf              20-pop3.conf         auth-passwdfile.conf.ext
10-mail.conf                 90-acl.conf          auth-static.conf.ext
10-master.conf               90-plugin.conf       auth-system.conf.ext
10-ssl.conf                  90-quota.conf        auth-vpopmail.conf.ext

How do they relate/translate?
https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/serverguide/dovecot-server.html mentions
10-mail.conf, 10-ssl,conf, and dovecot.conf itself. I understand the
reasoning behind the split -- this conf.d directory is probably not
touched by upgrades or something -- but we probably could use more
docs on what each file is supposed to be. I myself do not know how
much I can help since I honestly do not know either.



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