global: Change "backend" to "driver"

data/settings.js

@@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ Has two settings:
 The ACL driver to use. This setting is **REQUIRED** - if empty, the acl
 plugin is disabled.
 
-Currently, there is a single backend available: \`vfile\`. This backend
+Currently, there is a single driver available: \`vfile\`. This driver
 supports two ways of defining the ACL configuration:
 
 - *global*: ACL rules are applied to all users.
@@ -1959,7 +1959,7 @@ fts_header_includes {
 		plugin: 'fts',
 		values: setting_types.UINT,
 		text: `
-When the full text search backend detects that the index isn't up-to-date,
+When the full text search driver detects that the index isn't up-to-date,
 the indexer is told to index the messages and is given this much time to do
 so. If this time limit is reached, an error is returned, indicating that
 the search timed out during waiting for the indexing to complete:
@@ -2925,7 +2925,7 @@ quota_clone {
 		advanced: true,
 		text: `
 Unset quota information before updating. This is needed with some dict
-backends that do not support upserting, such as SQL with older SQLite.`
+drivers that do not support upserting, such as SQL with older SQLite.`
 	},
 
 	/* quota plugin */
@@ -2953,9 +2953,9 @@ quota "User quota" {
 		plugin: 'quota',
 		values: setting_types.STRING,
 		default: 'count',
-		seealso: [ '[[link,quota_backends]]' ],
+		seealso: [ '[[link,quota_drivers]]' ],
 		text: `
-Quota driver to use. See [[link,quota_backends]].`
+Quota driver to use. See [[link,quota_drivers]].`
 	},
 
 	quota_enforce: {
@@ -2992,7 +2992,7 @@ There are also other messages, which are currently hard coded:
 		text: `
 If yes, use filesystem quota's inode limit as the message count limit.
 This can be useful with Maildir or sdbox. Used only with
-[[link,quota_backend_fs]].`
+[[link,quota_driver_fs]].`
 	},
 
 	quota_fs_mount_path: {
@@ -3002,7 +3002,7 @@ This can be useful with Maildir or sdbox. Used only with
 		text: `
 If specified, enable FS quota for the specified mount path. Only mailboxes
 existing in this mount path have the quota enabled. Empty value looks up the
-mountpoint automatically. Used only with [[link,quota_backend_fs]].`
+mountpoint automatically. Used only with [[link,quota_driver_fs]].`
 	},
 
 	quota_fs_type: {
@@ -3015,7 +3015,7 @@ mountpoint automatically. Used only with [[link,quota_backend_fs]].`
 Using \`any\` attempts to use the user quota first, with a fallback to group
 quota. Using \`user\` or \`group\` only attempts to use the user or the group
 quota, with a fallback to unlimited quota limit. Used only with
-[[link,quota_backedn_fs]].`
+[[link,quota_driver_fs]].`
 	},
 
 	quota_hidden: {
@@ -3063,7 +3063,7 @@ no tracking of the quota, and not making it visible to IMAP GETQUOTA commands.`
 		default: 'INBOX',
 		text: `
 If non-empty, use \`GETQUOTAROOT <mailbox>\` to get the imapc quota root.
-Used only with [[link,quota_backend_imapc]].`
+Used only with [[link,quota_driver_imapc]].`
 	},
 
 	quota_imapc_root_name: {
@@ -3078,7 +3078,7 @@ to get the imapc quota.
 
 Some servers may have an empty quota root name. This is why if this setting and
 [[setting,quota_imapc_mailbox_name]] both have empty values, this setting is
-used. Used only with [[link,quota_backend_imapc]].`
+used. Used only with [[link,quota_driver_imapc]].`
 	},
 
 	quota_mail_size: {
@@ -4691,7 +4691,7 @@ Name of the dict to access in the dict server. This refers to the
 		text: `
 Points to the dict server's UNIX socket. The path is relative to the the
 [[setting,base_dir]] setting. This should be changed to \`dict-async\` if the
-dict backend supports asynchronous lookups (e.g. ldap, pgsql, cassandra, NOT
+dict driver supports asynchronous lookups (e.g. ldap, pgsql, cassandra, NOT
 mysql). The \`dict-async\` service allows more than one client, so this
 configuration prevents creating unnecessarily many dict processes.`
 	},
@@ -8881,7 +8881,7 @@ drivers.`
 		tags: [ 'passdb' ],
 		values: setting_types.STRING,
 		text: `
-Arguments for the passdb backend. The format of this value depends on the
+Arguments for the passdb driver. The format of this value depends on the
 passdb driver. Each one uses different args.`
 	},
 
@@ -9952,7 +9952,7 @@ See: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3#Ciphersuites`
 		text: `
 The directory where trusted SSL CA certificates can be found. For example
 \`/etc/ssl/certs\`. These certificates are used only for outgoing SSL
-connections (e.g. with the imapc backend).
+connections (e.g. with the imapc driver).
 
 For extra security you might want to point to a directory containing
 certificates only for the CAs that are actually needed for the server
@@ -9967,7 +9967,7 @@ File containing the trusted SSL CA certificates. For example
 \`/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt\`.
 
 These certificates are used only for outgoing SSL connections (e.g. with
-the [[link,imapc]] backend).
+the [[link,imapc]] driver).
 
 Note that this setting isn't recommended to be used with large CA bundles,
 because all the certificates are read into memory. This leads to excessive
@@ -10538,7 +10538,7 @@ drivers.`
 		tags: [ 'userdb' ],
 		values: setting_types.STRING,
 		text: `
-Arguments for the userdb backend. The format of this value depends on the userdb driver. Each one uses different args.`
+Arguments for the userdb driver. The format of this value depends on the userdb driver. Each one uses different args.`
 	},
 
 	userdb_fields: {

data/updates.js

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ export const updates = {
 	process_title_imap_process: '2.4.0',
 	process_title_initializing: '2.4.0',
 	process_title_mail_processes: '2.4.0',
-	quota_maildir_backend_removed: '2.4.0',
+	quota_maildir_driver_removed: '2.4.0',
 	service_auth_listener_type: '2.4.0',
 	service_dict_expire: '2.4.0',
 	service_listener_type: '2.4.0',

docs/core/config/auth/databases/ldap.md

@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ When connecting to AD, you may need to use port 3268. Then again, not all LDAP
 fields are available in port 3268. Use whatever works. See:
 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978012.aspx.
 
-### LDAP Backend Configuration
+### LDAP Driver Configuration
 
 ::: code-group
 ```[dovecot.conf]

docs/core/config/dict.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ used by, for example, [[plugin,last-login]] and [[setting,imap_metadata]].
 The dictionaries can be accessed either directly by the mail processes or
 they can be accessed via [proxy processes](#dictionary-proxy-process).
 
-Currently supported backends are:
+Currently supported drivers are:
 
 | Name | Description |
 | ---- | ----------- |
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ been accessed once. The connection is reused for other SQL lookups as long as
 their SQL settings are exactly the same. Opened SQL connections are currently
 never closed.
 
-## Backends
+## Drivers
 
 ### Flat Files
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ databases, but good for small ones such as a single user's quota.
 ### Filesystem (lib-fs-wrapper)
 
 This is a wrapper for lib-fs, which most importantly has the `posix`
-backend. Use the [[setting,fs]] setting to configure the filesystem.
+driver. Use the [[setting,fs]] setting to configure the filesystem.
 For example:
 
 ```
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ This create a separate file under `/var/lib/dovecot/dict` for each key.
 LDAP support is very similar to [`sql`](#sql) support, but there is no write
 support.
 
-Note that the LDAP backend must be used via [`proxy`](#proxy).
+Note that the LDAP driver must be used via [`proxy`](#proxy).
 
 See [[link,auth_ldap]].
 
@@ -132,14 +132,14 @@ map {
 
 The proxy driver performs dictionary accessing via the [[link,dict_proxy]].
 (The dict processes exist only if dict proxying is used.) This is especially
-useful with backends where their initialization is relatively expensive, such
+useful with drivers where their initialization is relatively expensive, such
 as SQL. The dict processes will perform connection pooling.
 
 <SettingsComponent tag="dict-proxy" level="3" />
 
 ### Redis
 
-The Redis backend is recommended to be used via [`proxy`](#proxy) to support
+The Redis driver is recommended to be used via [`proxy`](#proxy) to support
 [connection pooling](#connection-pooling).
 
 ::: warning
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Currently using Redis without proxying may cause crashes.
 ### SQL
 
 ::: warning
-Note that the SQL backend must be used with [`proxy`](#proxy).
+Note that the SQL driver must be used with [`proxy`](#proxy).
 :::
 
 <SettingsComponent tag="dict-sql" level="3" />
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ dict_map shared/$mailbox_guid/$key {
 
 Dict server is used for providing dictionary access via server
 processes instead of doing it directly from whichever process wants to access
-the dictionary. This is useful for some backends with relatively high
+the dictionary. This is useful for some drivers with relatively high
 connection cost (e.g. [`sql`](#sql)), but not necessarily for others (e.g.,
 [`redis`](#redis).
 

docs/core/config/fs.md

@@ -21,15 +21,15 @@ can be made to look similar to filesystems. It is similar to [[link,dict]] but
 generally where [[link,dict]] is generally used for small data `fs` is used for
 larger data.
 
-Currently supported FS backends are:
+Currently supported FS drivers are:
 
 | Name | Description |
 | --- | --- |
 | [[link,fs_posix,posix]] | POSIX filesystem. |
 | [[link,fs_dict,dict]] | Dictionary (`lib-dict` wrapper). |
 <!-- @include: @docs/storage/providers/includes/fs.inc -->
 
-Wrapper backends used on top of other backends:
+Wrapper drivers used on top of other drivers:
 
 | Name | Description |
 | --- | --- |
@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ support file metadata, in case you have a need for that use
 
 ## Dictionary Filesystem
 
-This is a wrapper for `lib-dict` for using [[link,dict]] backends as `fs`
-backends.
+This is a wrapper for `lib-dict` for using [[link,dict]] drivers as `fs`
+drivers.
 
 ### Settings
 
 <SettingsComponent tag="fs-dict" />
 
 ## Metawrap Filesystem
 
-This is a wrapper for other `fs` backends that don't support metadata. The
+This is a wrapper for other `fs` drivers that don't support metadata. The
 metadata is implemented by placing them into the beginning of the file content.

docs/core/config/imap.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ compression level for the available mechanism.
 ### SEARCH=FUZZY
 
 IMAP provides SEARCH as part of the core protocol, so it is useful to activate
-a Full Text Search indexing backend to handle these searches.
+a Full Text Search indexing driver to handle these searches.
 
 See [[plugin,fts]].
 

docs/core/config/mail_cache.md

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ IMAP ENVELOPE is used by many clients, which includes:
 | `date.sent` | The Date: header parsed to timestamp |
 | `date.received` | Mail delivery date (IMAP INTERNALDATE) |
 | `date.save` | Mail save/copy date (mdbox stores this always in dovecot.index)
-| `size.physical` | Physical message size (line feeds exactly as they are stored in the stored mail). Note that the size is of the mail as plaintext, i.e. after decryption/compression. This is typically used by [[link,quota_backend_fs]] or [[link,quota_backend_maildir]] quota. |
+| `size.physical` | Physical message size (line feeds exactly as they are stored in the stored mail). Note that the size is of the mail as plaintext, i.e. after decryption/compression. This is typically used by [[link,quota_driver_fs]] or [[link,quota_driver_maildir]] quota. |
 | `imap.bodystructure` | IMAP BODYSTRUCTURE response, which describes what the message's MIME structure looks like. |
 | `imap.body` | IMAP BODY response. This is the short version of imap.bodystructure, not the message body itself. If imap.bodystructure is cached, this field isn't cached because it can be generated from the imap.bodystructure. |
 | `imap.envelope` | IMAP ENVELOPE response, which contains the From, To, Cc, Bcc, Sender, Reply-To, Date, Subject, Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers in parsed forms. This is typically in the [[setting,mail_never_cache_fields]] because the raw headers are more useful in the cache and the ENVELOPE can be generated from them. |

docs/core/config/mailbox/formats/imapc.md

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ imapc_user = user@example.com
 
 ## Quota
 
-Using the `imapc` quota backend allows asking for the quota from remote
+Using the `imapc` quota driver allows asking for the quota from remote
 IMAP server. By default it uses `GETQUOTAROOT INBOX` to retrieve the quota.
 
 There are two parameters that can be used to control how the quota is looked

docs/core/config/mailbox/formats/maildir.md

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Dovecot supports reading a few fields from the `<base filename>`:
 
 * `,S=<size>`: `<size>` contains the file size. Getting the size from the
   filename avoids doing a system `stat()` call, which may improve the
-  performance. This is especially useful with [[link,quota_backend_maildir]].
+  performance. This is especially useful with [[link,quota_driver_maildir]].
 * `,W=<vsize>`: `<vsize>` contains the file's RFC822.SIZE, i.e., the file
   size with linefeeds being CR+LF characters. If the message was stored with
   CR+LF linefeeds, `<size>` and `<vsize>` are the same. Setting this may
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ cache and download the messages all over again. If you do this for all the
 users, you could cause huge disk I/O bursts to your server.
 
 Dovecot cannot currently handle not being able to write the control files, so
-it will cause problems with [[link,quota_backend_fs]]. To
+it will cause problems with [[link,quota_driver_fs]]. To
 avoid problems with this,
 you should place control files into a partition where quota isn't checked. You
 can specify this with the [[setting,mail_control_path]] setting:

docs/core/config/shared_mailboxes.md

@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ below) to get the dictionary updated for themselves.
 
 See [[setting,acl_sharing_map]] for plugin setting information.
 
-You could use any dictionary backend, including SQL or Cassandra, but a
+You could use any dictionary driver, including SQL or Cassandra, but a
 simple flat file should work pretty well too:
 
 ```[dovecot.conf]

docs/core/man/doveadm-fts.1.md

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Scan what mails exist in the full text search index and compare those to
 what actually exist in mailboxes. This removes mails from the index that
 have already been expunged and makes sure that the next **doveadm
 index** will index all the missing mails (if any). Note that currently
-most FTS backends do not implement this properly, but instead they
+most FTS drivers do not implement this properly, but instead they
 delete all the FTS indexes. This may change in the future versions.
 
 ### fts check fast

docs/core/man/doveadm-index.1.md

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ fts_autoindex = yes
 **-q**
 :   Queues the indexing to be run by indexer process. Without -q the
     indexing is done directly by the [[man,doveadm]] process. Some
-    backends can't handle multiple processes updating the indexes
+    drivers can't handle multiple processes updating the indexes
     simultaneously, so -q should usually be used on production.
 
 <!-- @include: option-S-socket.inc -->

docs/core/man/include/doveadm-fs.inc

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 ## DESCRIPTION
 
 The **doveadm fs** *commands* are used to abstractly interact with the
-storage backend defined in the Dovecot configuration. It allows access
+storage driver defined in the Dovecot configuration. It allows access
 to the mailbox structure without needing to know details of how the
-storage backend is designed.
+storage driver is designed.
 
 *config-filter-name*
 :   Filter name to use when looking up the fs settings. For example

docs/core/plugins/acl.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Dovecot supports both administrator-configured ACL files and the IMAP ACL
 extension (see [[plugin,imap-acl]], which allows users to change ACLs
 themselves.
 
-The ACL code was written to allow multiple ACL backends, but currently Dovecot
+The ACL code was written to allow multiple ACL drivers, but currently Dovecot
 supports only virtual ACL files.
 
 Note that using ACLs doesn't grant mail processes any extra filesystem
@@ -119,9 +119,9 @@ Master users have their own ACLs. They're not the mailbox owners, so by
 default they have no permissions to any of the mailboxes. See
 [[link,acl_master_users]] for more information.
 
-## ACL vfile Backend
+## ACL vfile Driver
 
-`vfile` backend supports per-mailbox ACLs and global ACLs.
+`vfile` driver supports per-mailbox ACLs and global ACLs.
 
 Per-mailbox ACLs are stored in `dovecot-acl` named file, which exists in:
 
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ by administrator, so users shouldn't be able to override them.
 
 ### Global ACL File
 
-Global ACL file path is specified as a parameter to vfile backend in
+Global ACL file path is specified as a parameter to vfile driver in
 [[setting,acl]], `/etc/dovecot/dovecot-acl` in the above example.
 
 The file contains otherwise the same data as regular per-mailbox `dovecot-acl`

docs/core/plugins/fs_compress.md

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ dovecotlinks:
 
 `fs-compress` plugin is used to wrap other data streams in a compression layer.
 
-It can be used by any of the settings using the [[link,fs,FS backends]].
+It can be used by any of the settings using the [[link,fs,FS drivers]].
 
-The exact location where to set it in the FS backend hierarchy depends on what
-other FS backends are being used.
+The exact location where to set it in the FS driver hierarchy depends on what
+other FS drivers are being used.
 
 The important rules are: