Hi!
I’m using NixOS 22.05 and installed the dovecot2 module and the getmail6 package to fetch mail from an old POP3 account.
On my debian system, I could just run /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver to run the dovecot LDA from my user’s getmailrc.
But on NixOS, I have to write
/nix/store/5w8v83gxy70z5ayhy4xp84xhn4p9i3c7-dovecot-2.3.19.1/libexec/dovecot/deliver - which will obviously break when dovecot is updated.
deliver and the whole libexec directory is also not copied to /run/current-system/sw/... If I do find / -name deliver, the nix store is really the only location where it’s available.
Is the libexec-copying part just missing from the dovecot package? Should I file a bug?
I’m tempted to add an activationScript that links deliver to some fixed location when running nixos-rebuild.
But I suspect, there’s an official way.