[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dovecot documentation woes.

[Dan Swartzendruber]

Hans I feel your pain.  Particularly given there are two very different
implementations: dovecot 1.1 and 2.x :(  I am running postfix+dovecot on a
ubuntu server, and fortunately, the packagers implemented a combo package
that pulls in and tweaks everything so it pretty much just works.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se] 
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:38 AM
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dovecot documentation woes.

I got the postfix installation running smoothly, and I went on to dovecot.

And problems began: maybe I actually AM stupid, but I hope not.
Still, I cannot seem to find a dovecot tutorial that actually
A: works
B: is in agreement with the current dovecot distro (especially: the 
dovecot conf file/dir structure is nothing like what is assumed in the 
HowTos)

Also, they seem all generally of low quality, and seem not to have been 
proofread by anyone and certainly not vetted for use by absolute beginners.

Postfix provided a very well executed couple of straightforward simple 
setups, which enabled me to learn a lot in a short time.
Trying to follow the dovecot HowTos often leaves you confused: like at 
the start it goes on about one specific layout, and in the middle 
somewhere something subtly changes, so you suddenly have no idea where 
to put stuff. And you're left wondering: am I supposed to create this, 
or will it happen by automagical means? (I've come across both..)

Does anyone here know of a simple and straightforward instruction on how 
to set something simple up for dovecot, dovecot SASL and lmtp with postfix.
Something that has been proofread.

If someone were to publish a book on Dovecot, I'd put my money down 
immediately.
Is there one?

On 2012-07-16 14:31, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
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> To:openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help, please! Starting to use postfix
> 	in an OI151_a5 environment, from scratch
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