[Dovecot] Upcoming configuration file changes

[Timo Sirainen]

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 '\'.

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