Hi, During the Jaunty release cycle the dovecot-postfix package was created in order to make it easier to integrate dovecot and postfix. The solution chosen was to not modify the default dovecot configuration file and instead generate a dovecot-postfix.conf with the correct options. The init script was also modified to use the new dovecot-postfix.conf file (if available) instead of the default configuration file.
While the goal is worthwhile the implementation seems to not be the best option. Using an alternate configuration file breaks a lot of common knowledge to the point that an upstream developer filed a bug [1] with a patch to dovecot to provide additional checks specific to Ubuntu. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dovecot/+bug/511295 Given the LTS status of Lucid I'd suggest to drop the dovecot-postfix package in order to avoid carrying a non-default/Ubuntu-specific configuration file around for 5 years. What needs to be done is to update dovecot init script to not look for dovecot-postfix.conf and migrate an existing dovecot-postfix.conf to dovecot.conf in the maintainer scripts. I still think the objective is worthwhile and we should spend some time at the next UDS to come up with a better implementation. -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
