[Dovecot] Runas Question

[Timo Sirainen]

On 5.11.2004, at 07:37, Chris L. Franklin wrote:

> Okay heres a weird question is there anyways to make dovecot run as 
> root ?

Modify the sources. Beginning of src/master/mail-process.c.

> Heres why:
> I'm currently using XMail email server (smtp/pop3/virtual accounts). 
> And I love using it. But it really must run as root. I've tryed all 
> the non-root solutions  for it. and really I'd prefer to have it run 
> as root. And I'd like to really use dovecot as (on server with xmail). 
> Currently I've got it running with some sendmail server and a few 
> postfixs But really I'd like to get it working with Xmail. So if 
> anyone has any Ideas or how to get Dovecot to run as root.

Could it still run as root, but set the file owner to non-root for 
files it creates? Then there would be no need to run Dovecot as root 
either.
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