On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 11:02, Jesse Peterson wrote:

What is the "official" way to pronounce Dovecot? Is there a meaning to the word? A background on why you chose it?

It's a real english word, pronounced as such.

Dovecot \Dove"cot\, Dovecote \Dove"cote\, n. A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

It was suggested by Bostik (Mika Boström) in IRC when I was still calling it just "imapd" and asking for naming ideas.