because there is a documentation and the only correct answer not following that is "you are in the area of undefined bahvior" The documentation does not(!) state this. It could be another way of including
On Saturday 17 May 2014 17:41:05 Reindl Harald wrote: the file.
that's not a dovecot syntax that's just unix I am talking about a configuration file and this syntax could have complete different meaning in this context. I have no way of knowing whether the dovecot config file parser follows this convention. Please don't assume people don't know the basics just because they ask questions.
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.