12 Feb
2006
12 Feb
'06
1:50 p.m.
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Johannes Berg wrote:
yeah but the maintainer must have followed some plan when making the package not start the master process when protocols is unset...
the reason is both the init script and the master dovecot binary are in the dovecot-common package while the imap and pop3 programs are in dovecot-imapd and dovecot-pop3d respectively. It is those packages which add the relevant bits to the protocols line.
If the protocols line is empty, it means neither dovecot-imapd or dovecot-pop3d are installed in which case you don't want dovecot to start.
I admit I hadn't thought about your use case.
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