[Dovecot] Upgrade to 2.0 - Not so smooth

[Jerrale G]

  On 8/15/2010 5:49 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
> On 8/15/2010 2:32 PM, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
>> On 2010-08-15 14:01:25 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>> Seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of code to at lease find if
>>> they have adduser or useradd.
>> that is 2 out of many solutions.
>> and depending of the admin he might create the user in an ldap tree or a
>> nis server.
>>
>> also packager dont really like users created from the buildsystem.
>>
>>      darix
>>
>
> Perhaps a better error message that says something like:
>
> Dovecot needs a user named "dovenull" to work. Please create user 
> "dovenull" and try again.
>

I agree its not as simple as people would think but, if dovecot would 
log everything relevant, dovecot could use its own logs to know what 
environment it is within.

Jerrale G.
SC Senior Admin