Re: IMAP server options in pkgsrc

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 02:06:43PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> My recommendation is to use dovecot for IMAP and not run POP3 at all.
> I think you will find that your config file is pretty small.  My config,
> including offering auth to postfix and tls, is 36 lines (ignore blank
> and comments).
> 
> I just added to dovecot.conf
> 
>   !include_try local.conf

That sounds good. I am a bit confused as pkgsrc installs an empty
configuration that is *huge* and probably mostly consists of commented
out default values - can I just rm -rf that and start with a single
dovecot.conf file? doveconf -n is also quite huge:

# doveconf -n | wc -l
     650

(but I touched a few places already, like pathes for ssl certs and similar)

My main initial problem is confusion between the "dovecot" user that
pkgsrc creates automatically and the tuturials all talking about a "vmail"
user that I need to add manually.

Martin