On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:59:49PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote:
>
> > We don't build the userdb on the same host where we use it.
> 
> You have a site-specific custom configuration.

The destination directory can currently be set at compile time.
I am proposing making this configurable at run-time too.  What is
the down-side?  Who could possibly be harmed by making the software
slightly more flexible?
 
> > We could use the symlink trick, but what happens when we want to
> > have a couple of different courier-imap installations with different
> > userdbs?
> 
> Create different symlinks.

Can you explain exactly how this would work?

Remember: the goal here is to be able to generate distinct userdbs
from distinct source files on the same host.

> Existing facilities already handle the situation adequately.

How?  Unless I misunderstand the directory mechanism, neither of the
methods you've suggested is adequate.

-- 
Ben Rosengart     (212) 741-4400 x215

Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you
have to ask, "Whose business?  Theirs, or yours?"    --Tim O'Reilly


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