[Dovecot] docs for anvil?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:00 -0700, PGNet Dev wrote:
> > I wasn't really planning on writing any docs for it. If you need to talk
> > to it, the source code will tell you the protocol. :) There's nothing to
> > configure in it beyond the normal service {} settings.
> 
> How about just what it does?
> 
> Is it postfix's anvil (http://linux.die.net/man/8/anvil)?

Its idea and name was stolen from Postfix, but that's all.

> Is it _only_ for use with postfix?  If we don't use postfix,
> can/should we disable it?

It's disabled automatically if it's not needed. It's currently only used
by mail_max_userip_connections setting to track how many connections a
user+ip combination has to the server.
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