[Dovecot] Binary locations

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 9 18:29:51 EEST 2009


On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 11:32 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> 1) These probably belong to bin/ or sbin/ or both:
>> - doveadm
>
> doveadm is supposed to be this featureful thing that can do all  
> kinds of
> admin-related stuff. Perhaps one possibility would be to make all of
> these its subcommands:

This is what I ended up doing yesterday.

>> - authtest
>
> doveadm auth ..

doveadm auth
doveadm user

>> - dovecotpw
>
> doveadm pw ..

Yep.

>> 3) Index file dumping programs, mostly meant for debugging problems:
>> - idxview
>> - listview
>> - logview
>> - mailboxlogview
>> - threadview
>
> doveadm dump <file> (automatically detects what type the file is).

Yep.

>> 4) Some extra tools that might be useful sometimes:
>> - imap-utf7 : Encode/decode IMAP mailbox names (mUTF-7 <-> UTF-8)
>
> doveadm mutf7 ..

I'm not sure about this. Doesn't seem like it's much of an "admin"  
feature. For now it's in libexec/imap-utf7.

>> - maildirlock : Lock a Maildir, primarily intended for compressing
>> files in maildir
>
> This could stay separate.

Stayed separate.


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