On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:24, Amelia A Lewis wrote:
Time to make an appeal.
One of the great advantages of Dovecot, currently, is ease of configuration. It's pretty straightforward, even though it's got a good bit of flexibility.
The examples that you give above (which I snipped) are ... kinda frightening. And it raises some questions about Yet Another Configuration Language and Parser.
It's all actually only a few simple additions to current code, at least if I get the logic sensible (which I don't think it currently is).
Also you won't have to use those "group" groups at all. I probably won't even given an example of their use in dovecot-example.conf so it won't confuse people who don't need it.
The only visible change for most people will be just that login/auth group definitions would be inside { .. } which I think makes more sense than the current kludgy way.
I do plan to keep the config file as simple as possible for normal installations.