[Dovecot] listen directive changed?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13.4.2013, at 7.13, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is the global listen directive supposed to be a governing directive,
> like in apache? or is it there just in case you dont use it in
> protocols?
> 
> I set a specific ipv6 address in global listen, but use [::] in proto

I don't understand what you mean by "in proto". If you mean inside protocol {} setting, that's a deprecated way and should log warnings about it.

> Testing to a secondary IP, not in the global listen, it still
> connects, so can I ask has the original use of global listen been
> deprecated?

It's the default listen setting, which gets used by all services' inet_listeners that don't override it.