Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > On 29/07/2023 11:13, Arsen Arsenović wrote: >> Wols Lists<antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: >> >>> On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote: >>>> User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always >>>> felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir, >>>> net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the box, >>>> and I've found this combination to be reliable. >>> Just a tip which bit me when I first installed dovecot ... >>> >>> The master config file actually chain-loads a local config file, make sure >>> you >>> use it. I edited the master file directly, so of course the first update >>> overwrote and trashed it ... > >> That should not happen. Where's the master config file? Is it under a >> directory masked by CONFIG_PROTECT? > > And then the dovecot maintainers update things, update the config file, and it > breaks for all users because the config version no longer matches the program > version ...
I don't recall Dovecot configs being version sensitive. > The master config file is in the obvious place - > /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. Just like postfix breaks exactly the same way - > /etc/postfix/main.cf. Then that should not have been overwritten. > Imho dovecot has got this (almost) exactly right. Just like systemd. You have > your master file that is updated by the distro, and you have your local file > that is updated by the sys admin. > > dovecot.conf points to a file local.conf, which does not error if it doesn't > exist, but over-rides dovecot.conf if it does. The proper way to do it! I agree, but this is still suspicious. CONFIG_PROTECT should've prevented that, and offered dispatch-conf instead. > Unlike postfix - where I can't find a place to split my local config away from > the default config - so every time postfix is updated I have to make sure it > doesn't try to update main.cf !!! Again, it shouldn't be able to do that. Please check CONFIG_PROTECT using: portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT It should, normally, contain /etc, set by profiles/base/make.defaults. Have a lovely day. -- Arsen Arsenović
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