Postfix and Dovecot LDA vs. LMTP

Michael Fox
2016-06-25T23:18:35Z

> imho wiki is the way to go to be up2date with information, else it would
> make more sense to make more informative man pages in dovecot, that will
> never be outdated

I agree that the wiki is useful and important.  It just doesn't have any
depth regarding the "why" and "how" part of the equation.
For example, WHY
LMTP vs. LDA (just one example).  There are many config snippets with a
couple of lines of explanation and not much about how they fit into the big
picture.  And some config examples (like the default_fields and
override_fields issue I reported earlier) simply don't work.

In the Postfix world, there is an old Postfix book (older than Peer's book)
which goes into a lot of the "why" and "how".  It takes you
through the
whole process from nothing to a full-fledged server and really gives you the
big picture.  All of that is still valid today.  Then the postfix website is
the place to go for up-to-date description of each config option.  Even
there, the web pages contain much more descriptive information about each
config option -- how it's used, when, why, side-effects, etc.

If I knew what I was doing, I'd offer to help add to the wiki.  But as a
newbie, I don't even know what I don't know.  ;-)

So I'm hoping that Peer's book will provide that overall big-picture and
that I can find an English copy somehow.

Michael