[Dovecot] How to stop mail_executable from cwd to ~home

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.5.2011, at 0.48, Joseph Tam wrote:

>>> As to how to stop the mail process from chdir'ing to a home directory
>> 
>> If you don't want Dovecot to use a home directory, don't tell it a home directory.
> 
> I'm all for that since I don't seem to have any need for a home directory.
> Any idea of how to do it with a passwd-file userdb backend?

Why do you have home directories listed in the passwd-file if you don't want to use them?

>  I also
> tried to override home directory with
> 
> 	userdb {
> 		driver = passwd-file
> 		args = /etc/passwd home=/bundled/home/$n
> 	}
> 
> but that didn't work out too well.  Or is this feature a rephrasing of
> the current topic thread "Global fields for passwd-file database".

Could be.