On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 18:33 -0500, john.b...@cox.net wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to dovecot and I've been taking my time examining what makes dovecot > work. If I have imap and pop3 listed as protocols, dovecot -n outputs: > > mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap > mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 > > I don't understand why imap is listed twice once as (default), and the other > without (default). As a secondary question, why would you want a default of > imap as opposed to pop3?
This is because I've been lazy. mail_executable(default) is never used anywhere. But you could have for example: fsync_disable(default): no fsync_disable(imap): yes fsync_disable(pop3): yes or something like that. Then the default would be used by for example deliver.
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