dovecot initscript

Hi,

about https://wiki.dovecot.org/DovecotInit, i wondered about stop) if test $running = yes; then echo "Stopping Dovecot" kill cat $pidfile echo "." else echo "Dovecot is already stopped." fi ;;

Is "doveadm stop" technically the same, or better/worse/safer? Does "doveadm stop" wait until all child processes are finished, or would "sleep 1" in the restart-function still be necessary in this case?

Is "kill -HUP cat $pidfile" technically the same as "doveadm reload"?

If it'a all fine to use doveadm in an initscript, i there a reason to not add "doveadm start" to doveadm functionality? Surely this is not that important, but maybe a bit more consistent.

Thanks,

Johannes