[Dovecot] dovecot user

[Ralph Seichter]

On 23.01.10 13:51, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> 1. Completely untrusted user for login processes.
> 2. Slightly more trusted internal Dovecot user.
>
> So "dovecot" could be reused for 2. And it would no longer be a mortal
> sin to use dovecot user for owning mail files. For 1. there would be a
> new user. I'd use "dovelogin", but apparently tools still don't much
> like usernames that are longer than 8 characters.

You could use "dovecotl" (lower-case "l" as the eighth character) which
as a nice Aztec ring. ;-) Seriously, I'd suggest you make both users
configurable, either by providing a compile time option for "configure"
or by adding runtime options to dovecot.conf. That would allow each
administrator to chose users according to local regulations.

-Ralph