> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Mathias Gug > Verzonden: vrijdag 16 april 2010 0:48 > Aan: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Onderwerp: RFC: remove dovecot-postfix from lucid > > > 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
Drop it. It was the first thing I did when i was building a new server. Just use the standard configs. Much clearer. Egbert jan (NL) -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
