Re: [Dovecot] Getting rid of the common newbie problems

Timo,

In general, the better the docs are and the better the error messages are the less support they will need. If the log message said "Failure XXX, check YYY to see if it is set" giving the user as much help as possible. You could have a number of sanity checks at startup where dovecot checks out the environment verifying that directories exist and perhaps do some write testing to make sure areas that need to be writable actually are.