[Dovecot] wrong config file?

[Dennis Guhl]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:06:05AM -0400, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:43, Dennis Guhl <dg at dguhl.org> wrote:
> 
> > Ubuntu is using dovecot-postfix.conf as the working config file if you
> > install the package 'dovecot-postfix' from the Ubuntu server team. But
> > if you install the seperate packages 'dovecot-[common|imapd|pop3d]'
> > dovecot.conf will be used.
> >
> > And it might be, that your master.cf does not call dovecot deliver
> > with '-c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf' as part of argv=.
> >
> 
> Apparently the config file selection is being done in /etc/init.d/dovecot so
> it applies to the daemon and probably anything started from it, but not to
> programs started elsewhere.  I'm guessing this special handling of Postfix
> is distro specific, and not part of the basic Dovecot package.  But if they
> are going to make such a change, they really should have made it fully
> consistent and universal by changing the default file name string (and maybe
> the logic to test between 2 different names) within the Dovecot programs.
> 
> That init file is testing if dovecot-postfix.conf exists, and falling back
> to the default if not.
> 
> If that observation is correct, then I can simply be sure of which config
> file I'm using by removing dovecot-postfix.conf and just using dovecot.conf
> only.

While not using Ubuntu I don't know if this is correct, but I agree
that they should have made the changes more consistent if they think
they are necessary at all.

Dennis