Currently, dovecot places it's config files in $sysconfdir

In Makefile.am, this is defines as:

confdir = $(sysconfdir)

It would be far more friendly to an already overloaded /etc/ directory, and easier to locate the files, to follow the now-common convention and place files in $sysconfdir / dovecot / ... on most systems this would mean:

/etc/dovecot/

If there is only a dovecot.conf, it doesn't really matter, but when additional config files get added for ldap, sql, sieve, it starts to add up.

Some distributions already make this change, but placing this change in the dovecot core would make it unnecessary for downstream packagers to make a change to the core dovecot distribution files.

Regards,

• Brian