On 2010-05-20 1:58 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 16.5.2010, at 19.54, Charles Marcus wrote: > v2.0 dovecot -n shows if lock_method was typoed. Also I find it > strange that reloading a config wouldn't show the error.
Cool... >> I also think it would be a good idea to report the line# in the >> config file where the error resides (can make it much easier to >> find the setting in a large, heavily commented config file)... > This is unfortunately difficult. The config file is first parsed and > only afterwards validated. It's even more problematic if the setting is > overwritten in different places in config file.. Hmmm... postfix handles this by simply letting the last one 'win', which seems like a reasonable way to handle that. Any chance 2.0 could work the same way? This way I could keep all of my settings in a separate file, and then include them in the main file, and I'd be sure that my custom settings overrode any of the defaults. -- Best regards, Charles
