[Dovecot] Configuration file changes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 1 15:22:51 EEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:09, Matthias Andree wrote:
> One thing that I like about Courier components is its "sysconftool"
> approach that allows to add or remove parameters/examples/defaults to
> the configuration file as the software changes. If the concept supported
> rewriting the configuration file, without losing user customizations,
> but adding new parameters and their documentation, that'd be really
> helpful.

Yes, it would be nice.. Hmm. I think I'd use external script for that
though, probably written with Perl. It could use dovecot-example.conf
and maybe some dovecot.conf.history file to determine what comments
belong to which configuration option.




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