OFF TOPIC: pw add user slow

Valeri Galtsev galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu
Tue Oct 18 14:46:50 UTC 2016


On Tue, October 18, 2016 9:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/18/16 15:32, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> I have off topic question. Just the other day I got warning that dovecot
>> port currently has no maintainer. I was so happy with dovecot for over
>> one
>> and a half decades, so switching to something else doesn't give me good
>> feelings. Anybody knows any more details about dovecot port?
>
> Yes.  Why aren't you using the mail/dovecot2 port?  Especially if this
> is a new install.
>
> IIRC.  mail/dovecot was kept around because of some incompatible changes
> when mail/dovecot2 was released.  That was many years ago now, and I'm
> not sure if keeping the old dovecot port really is still necessary.
> Everyone should have had ample time to migrate to dovecot2.

Great, I just learned about dovecot2 (why I feel so sheepish?). As they
say, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know right person
you can ask. Thanks!

Valeri
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
>
>


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