The sample provided config file (the one I started with by editing it) included the following text:

------------------------------ WARNING -------------------------------

If there's a file /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf, which is part of

dovecot-postfix package, it will be used instead of dovecot.conf.

Keep in mind that, if that file exist, none of the changes in

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf will have effect on dovecot's configuration.

In that case you should customize /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf.

------------------------------ WARNING -------------------------------

So I expected it would use that by default. It seems to not be doing so. Does this mean I have to modify the startup scripts to add the -c option to force the use of this config file? Or should I just put all my configs in the default "/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf" file?

When doing "dovecot -n" it became apparent that my configs were not being used. But "dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot-postfix.conf -n" was doing it. Any idea why it's not behaving as those comments described?