On 5.11.2004, at 07:37, Chris L. Franklin wrote:
Okay heres a weird question is there anyways to make dovecot run as root ?
Modify the sources. Beginning of src/master/mail-process.c.
Heres why: I'm currently using XMail email server (smtp/pop3/virtual accounts). And I love using it. But it really must run as root. I've tryed all the non-root solutions for it. and really I'd prefer to have it run as root. And I'd like to really use dovecot as (on server with xmail). Currently I've got it running with some sendmail server and a few postfixs But really I'd like to get it working with Xmail. So if anyone has any Ideas or how to get Dovecot to run as root.
Could it still run as root, but set the file owner to non-root for files it creates? Then there would be no need to run Dovecot as root either.