On 10.12.2004, at 23:50, Marco Herrn wrote:
But I came to another problem when doing this. Is it the case that dovecot expects uids and gids always as numbers? I only store the human readable names of them, but dovecot complains with:
If they are names, how should dovecot translate them to numbers?
Sorry for my little knowledge about that, but I thought that the names should be enough. At least exim is capable of using user and group names as well as uids and gids. Do you know where the difference is in the way exim and dovecot handle this? I would think that exim just looks into the passwd file for this information (this is only an assumption). Is this not possible in dovecot?
Well, after replying, I started thinking if I wanted Dovecot to convert uid/gid names to numbers. I couldn't decide yet. It could be useful, but it could be just bloat. Does anyone have a ready patch to do it? Maybe then it would be easier :)