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?

  ~$ portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT
  /etc /usr/share/config

... on my machine (re-run on yours to check)

> Cheers,
> Wol

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Arsen Arsenović