[Dovecot] no protocols inhibits dovecot --exec-mail

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Johannes Berg wrote:

> yeah but the maintainer must have followed some plan when making the
> package not start the master process when protocols is unset...
>

the reason is both the init script and the master dovecot binary are in 
the dovecot-common package while the imap and pop3 programs are in 
dovecot-imapd and dovecot-pop3d respectively.  It is those packages which 
add the relevant bits to the protocols line.

If the protocols line is empty, it means neither dovecot-imapd or 
dovecot-pop3d are installed in which case you don't want dovecot to start.

I admit I hadn't thought about your use case.

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