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@example.com, user2@example.com,...
and
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