Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

[Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 29/07/2023 11:13, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> Wols Lists<antlists@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 ...

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.

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!

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 !!!

Cheers,
Wol