Karol Babioch <karol@babioch.de> writes:

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You can share libraries, binaries, log files, but use separate configuration files, specifying different ports/addresses/ssl-configs/auth/access parameters. Then you can fire them both up

dovecot -c /dovecot/etc/dovecot-1.conf
dovecot -c /dovecot/etc/dovecot-2.conf

I will have to look into it. I'm afraid that I would have to fiddle around with the default unit files.

What are "unit files"?

Also I'm not completely sure how this would work with all of the configuration files that have been split off into small chunks and get included at some point. This is probably going to be messy rather quickly :'(.

I don't see why it would be messy. If the conf.d/* are the same, you can use the same config directory. If they differ, you can can copy those files to another config directory (e.g. conf-d/* -> conf-2.d/), modify the snippets that differ, then include this alternate set of configurations

!include conf-2.d/*

Thanks for your suggestion.

You're welcome.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>