On 05/17/2014 11:57 AM, Boris wrote:
no - < reads a file and without you are supposed to directly paste your certificate in the configuration instead point to a file I see. In all other places I know dovecot references files simply with "/" so I still wonder what is so different in this case.
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@example.com, user2@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."