[Dovecot] Why dovecot does not want to read my acl file?

Lukas Haase lukashaase at gmx.at
Thu Dec 17 08:08:42 EET 2009


Hi again,

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Lukas Haase wrote:
> [...]
> Really? Having uid field used multiple times doesn't work in v1.1+. 
> Maybe v1.0 code worked differently. But at least you should be aware
> of that if you upgrade Dovecot the above settings will break..
> Unfortunately there's currently no easy way to do that.

Auh, does not sound good. I think in this case it is not an option.

What about the "not easy" ways? I guess it includes at least self compiling?

> [...]
> So what happens is that dovecot master process forks a new imap
> process that starts up as root, then the imap process figures out
> what permissions it should be running as and executes the appropriate
> syscalls to get itself to that state.

Ah, thank you very much now, I understand.

Regards,
Luke



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