[Dovecot] Access filesystem (NFS) as some user

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 4 May 2010, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:

> How to configure Dovecot so that at least disk read-write are performed
> as a "vmail" user (that I have created with the right attributes)?
>
> Is the workaround of changing dovecot's system UID/GID a not-so-bad one?
> (I am trying to see if it works, at least...)

Do you encounter any problems? I thought the access is always performed 
with the proper UID/GID.

There is: 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MainConfig?highlight=mail_drop_priv_before_exec

the mail_drop_priv_before_exec setting, too.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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