On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:06:05AM -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:43, Dennis Guhl <d...@dguhl.org> wrote: > > > Ubuntu is using dovecot-postfix.conf as the working config file if you > > install the package 'dovecot-postfix' from the Ubuntu server team. But > > if you install the seperate packages 'dovecot-[common|imapd|pop3d]' > > dovecot.conf will be used. > > > > And it might be, that your master.cf does not call dovecot deliver > > with '-c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf' as part of argv=. > > > > Apparently the config file selection is being done in /etc/init.d/dovecot so > it applies to the daemon and probably anything started from it, but not to > programs started elsewhere. I'm guessing this special handling of Postfix > is distro specific, and not part of the basic Dovecot package. But if they > are going to make such a change, they really should have made it fully > consistent and universal by changing the default file name string (and maybe > the logic to test between 2 different names) within the Dovecot programs. > > That init file is testing if dovecot-postfix.conf exists, and falling back > to the default if not. > > If that observation is correct, then I can simply be sure of which config > file I'm using by removing dovecot-postfix.conf and just using dovecot.conf > only.
While not using Ubuntu I don't know if this is correct, but I agree that they should have made the changes more consistent if they think they are necessary at all. Dennis