[Dovecot] dovecot and systemd

[Michal Hlavinka]

Hi all,

dovecot supports systemd socket activation. Together with standard unit 
activation (like old sysv init script), there are two ways how to 
configure dovecot(only interface:port, not whole configuration). This 
can result in situation where those configurations does not say the 
same. Question is what should happen then?

For example, lets have dovecot configured to listen for imap(s) and lets 
have systemd dovecot socket configured to listen for all protocols - 
pop3(s) and imap(s). When dovecot is configured to start on boot, 
systemd will start it and dovecot will listen on imap(s) ports. But when 
dovecot.socket is enabled, it'll listen on pop3(s) too and when new pop3 
connection comes, it'll pass it to dovecot and dovecot will serve it. 
The question is: Should this happen? What exactly should happen when 
dovecot.conf does not match dovecot.socket configuration?

Michal