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:
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.
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..