[Dovecot] LDAP and GSSAPI problems
Trever L. Adams
trever.adams at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 08:51:49 EET 2011
This is very good. A safe default (no import_environment) maybe TZ USER and
HOME. Just to maintain functionality if people don't set this up.
-----Original message-----
From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
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Cc: "Trever L. Adams" <trever.adams at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 23:55:06 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LDAP and GSSAPI problems
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 01:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > (does this really need to be set over and over or can the master process
> > set it and have the environment inherited... it has been a long time
> > since I did any coding related to environment variables accross forks,
> > etc.)?
>
> Environment is inherited, but Dovecot explicitly clears it at the
> startup of each process, so any unnecessary stuff gets dropped out. But
> it would be possible to add e.g. DOVECOT_PRESERVE_ENVS that lists which
> environments variables should be preserved.
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/cec7fa92ff48
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