[Dovecot] / vs. </

[Boris]

On Sunday 18 May 2014 18:21:23 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> In the other cases, the configurable parameter is supposed to be a path
> to a file. So you give it a path, beginning with "/".
> 
> The certificate parameter takes  string, so you would have had to
> copy/paste your certificate in there. But nobody wants to do that, so
> there's an alternate way to read the certificate from a file.
> 
> Fictional example: it's the difference between:
> 
>   valid_users = user1 at example.com, user2 at example.com,...
> 
> and
> 
>   valid_users = </path/to/valid/users
> 
> The leading "<" means "pretend I typed the contents of this file right
> here." If instead you had,
> 
>   valid_users = /path/to/valid/users
> 
> then dovecot might think you have one valid user named
> "/path/to/valid/users."

Thank you for the explanation Michael. I think I understand it now.

Boris