On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:07 -0500, AJ Weber wrote:

Is the wiki up-to-date on the command-line arguments that can be passed to dovecot?

I don't like the fact that I have to hard-code the "listen address" in the config file. Even though it shouldn't change (rarely if ever), when I have a multi-homed host, I need to specify only one of the interfaces.

Would it be possible to either:

1. Make --listen into an optional, command-line argument; or
2. Make the listen config-file parameter understand interface names instead of just IP Addresses? (Like "eth0")

I'm not sure if there is a portable way to know the IP address for an interface, and it's probably too much work to add code for all the OSes.

As for --listen.. Well, I'd rather not add any such specific command line options. It'd be better if it was possible to change any setting with a single option, like Postfix has -o. Anyway, this is a bit too late for v1.0.