[Bug 511295] [NEW] dovecot -n silently reports wrong configuration when using dovecot-postfix

[Timo Sirainen]

Public bug reported:

dovecot-postfix package uses dovecot-postfix.conf by giving it with -c
parameter to all dovecot binaries. So when people ask for help about
Dovecot, they paste dovecot -n output as requested, but this outputs
wrong configuration and gets everyone confused. They'd need to give
dovecot -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf, but this isn't obvious.

It would have been nice if Ubuntu hadn't used a different config file,
but since I can't do anything about it, I hope you'll add this patch
(applies without errors also to v1.1 hg tip):
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/142c935e44d6

With it dovecot -n gives a nice warning that hopefully points users
towards the solution:

Warning: Dovecot was last started using /etc/dovecot/dovecot-
postfix.conf, but this config is /etc/dovecot.conf

** Affects: dovecot (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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dovecot -n silently reports wrong configuration when using dovecot-postfix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511295
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