[Dovecot] Roadmap to future

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Sat Dec 8 17:05:32 EET 2007


On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:17:22PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Deliver / LMTP server
> ---------------------
> 
> Currently deliver parses dovecot.conf using its own parser. This has
> caused all kinds of problems. v2.0's master rewrite helps with this,
> because deliver can then just ask the configuration from config process
> the same way as other processes are.
> 
> Another problem is that people who use multiple user IDs have had to make
> deliver setuid-root. I really hate this, but currently there's no better
> way. Better fix for this would be to use LMTP server instead. There could
> be either a separate LMTP client or deliver could support LMTP protocol
> as well. I'm not sure which one is better.


I'll weigh in 50 euro for the deliver LMTP interface.  It's not much, but
others may add to it. :-)


	Geert

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