On 29.6.2012, at 5.18, Daniel Parthey wrote: > wouldn't it be better to use a syntax similar to other doveadm commands, > with labels for all arguments? > > doveadm auth test -u <user> -p [<pass>] > doveadm auth cache flush -u [<user>] > doveadm auth cache stats > > This will allow you to syntactically distinguish "commands" from "arguments". > Otherwise you might run into the same "kludgy" syntax problem again, as soon > as the number of subcommands changes.
The problem was with the "auth" toplevel command not having subcommands. I don't think there are going to be any problems with subcommands. Also there are many commands already that take <user> without the -u parameter. Actually it's only the "mail commands" that take -u parameter at all. Another potential problem is "doveadm user" command. I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to move it to "doveadm auth user" or "doveadm auth userdb" command. There should be also a similar "doveadm auth passdb" command that does a passdb lookup without authentication.
