On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 18:33 -0500, john.blue@cox.net wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to dovecot and I've been taking my time examining what makes dovecot work. If I have imap and pop3 listed as protocols, dovecot -n outputs:

mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3

I don't understand why imap is listed twice once as (default), and the other without (default). As a secondary question, why would you want a default of imap as opposed to pop3?

This is because I've been lazy. mail_executable(default) is never used anywhere. But you could have for example:

fsync_disable(default): no fsync_disable(imap): yes fsync_disable(pop3): yes

or something like that. Then the default would be used by for example deliver.