The challenge of customizing Dovecot

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 03/22/2017 11:36 AM, chaouche yacine wrote:
> Robert,
>
> What would be the benefit of using sed against making customized files and just copying them ? I'd probably just want to copy a working version of /etc/dovecot/ conf files instead of modifying my existing files with sed scripts (or create new ones with cat).

new options are left unaltered.  I learned this with postfix, to use 
postconf instead of trying to replace main.cf.

I thought about mv old confs then cat new confs, but again, there are 
other things set up, and I worked at changing what needed customization, 
rather than wholesale replacement.