[Dovecot] deliver vs lda

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Thu Apr 9 01:02:22 EEST 2009


On mer., avr  08, 2009, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> deliver is the binary name. but it's configured inside protocol lda {}
>> section. This is getting annoying, any thoughts on what would be a good
>> unifying name?
>>
>> a) deliver binary, protocol deliver {}
>>
>> b) lda binary, protocol lda {}
>>
>> c) dovecot-lda binary, protocol lda {}
>>
>> d) mda binary, protocol mda {}
>>
>> e) dovecot-mda binary, protocol mda {}
>>
>> f) something else?
>>
>> In any case protocol lda {} would work for a while longer for backwards
>> compatibility.
>>
>> c) and e) choices also makes me think if e.g. imap and imap-login should
>> be called dovecot-imap and dovecot-imap-login instead. People have had
>> trouble finding them since ps|grep dovecot doesn't find them..
>>   
>>
I like option c as well, however I don't like the idea of three
level binary and process names dovecot-this-that. Hopefully a
better solution to the imap/imap-login missing 'dovecot' will
be found.

-- 
Eduard


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