> On 2015-03-30, at 4:24 AM, Gedalya <geda...@gedalya.net> wrote:
>
> The order in which the config files are included and parsed ought not to
> matter. Dovecot parses the entire config, resulting in what you see in
> doveconf -n output, before it does anything. Only the final result applies.
>
> If your config file says:
>
> key = value1
> key = value1 value2 (or, key = $key value2 - same thing)
>
> Then key = value1 value2, and that and only that ever matters.
>
> I have a suspicion as to what your issue is.
>
> Here is a clarification. Dovecot has only one single config file - the result
> of concatenating all files as included out of the dovecot.conf file. The
> names of the individual files in conf.d are technically meaningless. The
> config is organized into topics only to make it easier to humans to find
> their way around.
>
> The way to apply a setting to a specific component is to put it under a
> section such as: protocol imap {}. You've mentioned that you have different
> mail_plugins settings in different _files_, but are you sure they are always
> inside the protocl xxx {} section?
Thank you for this detail. While I suspected such operation, I now know
for sure.
While not all protocol sections are defined in each file, here are the
contents of the other files that contain mail_plugins parameters :
10-mail.conf: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins zlib quota
20-imap.conf: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_zlib imap_quota antispam
And here are the contents of each defined protocol section :
15-lda.conf: protocol lda {
15-lda.conf: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve
15-lda.conf: }
20-lmtp.conf: protocol lmtp {
20-lmtp.conf: mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve
20-lmtp.conf: }
Given that doveconf -n shows :
protocol lmtp {
mail_plugins = " zlib quota imap_zlib imap_quota antispam sieve"
}
I need to change something, somewhere. I am not opposed to removing
$mail_plugins from any protocol section. Is it syntactically correct to use
$mail_plugins in the 10-mail.conf file? Perhaps this is my source of the issues
for lmtp?
Here are the results of my tests when making changes :
test 1 )
- removed $mail_plugins
10-mail.conf: mail_plugins = zlib quota
- doveconf - n output shows :
mail_plugins = zlib quota imap_zlib imap_quota antispam
protocol lmtp {
mail_plugins = zlib quota imap_zlib imap_quota antispam sieve
}
test 2 )
- removed mail_plugins from 10-mail.conf
- doveconf - n output shows :
mail_plugins = " imap_zlib imap_quota antispam"
protocol lmtp {
mail_plugins = " imap_zlib imap_quota antispam sieve"
}
test 3 )
- removed mail_plugins from 10-mail.conf
- removed $mail_plugins from 15-lda.conf, 20-imap.conf, and 20-lmtp.conf
- explicitly set mail_plugins in 15-lda.conf, 20-imap.conf, and 20-lmtp.conf
- doveconf - n output shows :
mail_plugins = zlib quota imap_zlib imap_quota antispam
protocol lmtp {
mail_plugins = zlib quota sieve
}
I’m curious as to why on the 2nd test, there are quote marks in the
mail_plugins parameters but not in the 1st or 3rd test?
I think the 3rd test is the desired operating configuration. If so, why
is using $mail_plugins causing an issue? Is this a bug in the ubuntu 14.04
packages? Or was I wrong to use $mail_plugins in the lmtp protocol section (if
so, the same is likely true for the lda protocol section)?
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