[Dovecot] v1.1.alpha1 released / Dovecot 5 years old

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 17:24 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > Jul 24 was also the day I decided to use Dovecot name. It was suggested
> > to me around Jul 18. I'm pretty bad at naming things myself:
> 
> I have always been interested how you got around to naming Dovecot.

The name came from Mika Boström in IRC (or SILC probably, because I
can't find the discussion from my logs). I wasn't sure if I wanted to
use it first, but no-one else came up with anything better.

> Is
> there any other meaning intended apart from what the dictionary says (and
> which seems little related to imap software :)

Pigeons used to carry mail and live in dovecots, so Dovecot is the house
for email :)

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