[Dovecot] Please help me resolve why mail isn't being delivered to virtual users

mouss mlist.only at free.fr
Sat Jan 12 20:52:26 EET 2008


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:43 -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I used as an example, mbox and MAILDIR to make my point.
>> Perhaps this was a bad choice because I felt this same frustration in
>> reading other areas of the wiki.  It wasn't that the information was bad, or
>> unusable.  I just had questions about how it all fit together for dovecot,
>> and couldn't find the answers on the dovecot site.  I don't think it's
>> unreasonable to ask that a particular software program explain how it's
>> pieces fit together, or how it (the software program) is supposed to work
>> with other pieces it makes use of but doesn't directly control.
> 
> I think there are two problems with the wiki:
> 
> 1) There's no clear beginning and ending as in a book. The mbox and
> maildir terms are explained in wiki, but you just didn't notice those
> pages. If it had been a book, they would have been in the first few
> chapters, and you probably would have noticed them.
> 

How about a terminology page that shows links inside or oustide the wiki?

> 2) Although there is http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview it still
> doesn't explain everything. Also it could probably use a couple of
> headlines in the middle to make it easier to read. So explaining more
> about how things fit together would be useful, but I'm not sure where I
> should write about that or even what exactly I should write about.
> 
> Maybe a separate DovecotOverview page that tries to explain what parts
> Dovecot consists of and what different ways there are to set up a new
> mail server..



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