[Dovecot] Dovecot under daemontools

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:05 -0500, Rick Romero wrote:
> I'm sure you're just kidding, but I kinda have to agree here.  There are
> some improvements that could be made in the system.
> 
> 1. The whole *BSD poll/kqueue issue.  From what configure says, kqueue
> shouldn't ever show up.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

> 2. POP?  It gets compiled in automatically, yet doesn't start.  Doesn't
> bother me, as I'm just using IMAP, but it doesn't seem logical.  If POP
> doesn't start by default, I wouldn't think it would be compiled in by
> default.

Well, I think compiling and using by default are different things.
Compiling everything by default doesn't really hurt anything, but using
all of them by default does.

I can't really think of how this could be improved. I think no matter
what change I do people will start complaining.

> 3. Config file.  It flows well, but it's freaking huge.

Yea. For v2.0 I'm planning on splitting it up. I already once did such a
split and asked people's suggestions about that (IIRC).

> 3a Quotas.  Where are you told that to enable imap quotas, you need to
> say:  mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
> Maybe I missed it, but I modified horde to manually get the quotas
> because I couldn't find or figure out how enable it in dovecot.

I'm hoping to get http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex into a usable state
some day and it should hopefully be easy enough to install Dovecot into
a fully usable state. :)

Anyway there already is wiki -> Quota page.

> > Sorry, one more .... courier-imap is easier to configure, no?
> 
> Yes on FreeBSD, you have IMAP/POP and SSL config files.

I think SSL certificates are generated by most Dovecot binary packages,
so this is a FreeBSD port-issue I think..

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