On 16.04.2010 19:45, Douglas Stanley wrote: > Isn't that more or less what happens when dpkg configures postfix anyway? Am I > missing something that would make this task so difficult it's not worth doing?
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. postfix's configuration can be edited with 'postconf' tool. Packages can't edit configuration files on install, but they can use interface to configuration. postconf is an interface to main.cf. > I would vote for not shipping just an extra (potentially confusing) > config in a package > name that could also possibly confuse people, when there could be a > better way to > make it end user friendly. So, dovecot now supports conf.d directory, in the same way apache or amavisd-new have split configs. This allows us to have standard dovecot.conf and then additional configuration overrides in /etc/dovecot/conf.d directory. So, dovecot will read it's usual configuration file that will include configs from conf.d directory. In the same way it now uses dovecot-sql.conf or dovecot-ldap.conf. Does that solves the issue? Note: upstream added this feature, not Ubuntu or Debian. -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
