Re: [Dovecot] Roadmap to future

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:17:22PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:

Deliver / LMTP server

Currently deliver parses dovecot.conf using its own parser. This has caused all kinds of problems. v2.0's master rewrite helps with this, because deliver can then just ask the configuration from config process the same way as other processes are.

Another problem is that people who use multiple user IDs have had to make deliver setuid-root. I really hate this, but currently there's no better way. Better fix for this would be to use LMTP server instead. There could be either a separate LMTP client or deliver could support LMTP protocol as well. I'm not sure which one is better.

I'll weigh in 50 euro for the deliver LMTP interface. It's not much, but others may add to it. :-)

Geert