On dovecot

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
>       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.

      Update: the best reference (still meh) I found for 2. is
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/VirtualUserFlatFilesPostfix