[Dovecot] Binary locations

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Oct 6 18:32:10 EEST 2009


Where do you think the following binaries should be installed to? The
possible locations are:

 - bin/
 - sbin/
 - libexec/dovecot/ (or lib/dovecot/ in most Linux distros)

So the binaries are:

1) These probably belong to bin/ or sbin/ or both:
 - authtest
 - dovecotpw
 - doveadm

2) Binaries that you might want to call from mail_executable setting:
 - rawlog
 - gdbhelper

3) Index file dumping programs, mostly meant for debugging problems:
 - idxview
 - listview
 - logview
 - mailboxlogview
 - threadview

4) Some extra tools that might be useful sometimes:
 - imap-utf7 : Encode/decode IMAP mailbox names (mUTF-7 <-> UTF-8)
 - maildirlock : Lock a Maildir, primarily intended for compressing
files in maildir

And perhaps some of the binaries should be renamed? The authtest
actually now looks like a bad name. Maybe it should have been
"doveauthtest" or "dovecot-authtest" or ..?
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20091006/731172fd/attachment.bin 


More information about the dovecot mailing list