On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:52:08PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
mbox is fine as long as you don't want to delete messages. It's perfect for read-only mailing list archives.
Indeed. mbox is fine for some people and some things, and in fact for archived mboxes Maildir can just be a big waste.
It is nice to be open to well-established storage formats. Bear in mind that there are people who refuse to use Maildir formats too.
Sure, but that doesn't mean that such people *must* be catered for by every imap daemon. Trying to keep everybody happy pretty much guarantees that nobody will be completely happy.
Back to the topic, I'd rather there wasn't a configuration file at all. I've got very used to Dan Berstein/Bruce Guenter software where environment variables and command line arguments are the only configuration. I'm only using the "imap" program from dovecot(*), and that follows the same convention (in standard usage, its environment variables are set by the dovecot frontends).
(*)I'm using tcpserver for network connection control, modified stunnel for TLS, and imapfront for authentication/uid switching.
-- Charlie