On 27.3.2010, at 6.49, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Tail just doesn't make much sense to me. Also it's not completely free >> of pornographic associations either. :) > > No, no, totally free of pornographic connotation. Dovetail is a type of > woodworking joint. That's what the vast majority of people on planet earth > will associate "dovetail" with anyway.
Maybe the native english speakers (and I'd think only a subset of them too). I had never heard of dovetail. >> So my last idea: doveless. "It's less of a dovecot process." To me it >> seems closer to perfect as anything I've seen so far. > > Or how about just "dovel", a crafty word smithing merge of dovecot+shovel? > Although I'm unsure of any parallels between the work done by this thing and > that performed by a shovel. ;) Still, it's catchy. I want something that's at least potentially understandable to people who understand english (and not just native speakers). I wouldn't know why some process is owned by user "dovel". That might not even make me realize it's a Dovecot process.
