14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
7:37 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:07 +0000, Dick Middleton wrote:
Why not get dovecot to do the delivery; since dovecot already has rw access to all users' files? The LDA mearly connecting to dovecot and passing the email to it.
No, Dovecot doesn't have access to all users' files. Only root has access to all files. Dovecot drops from root to a specific user before accessing the files. Of course a lot of installations use a single UID for all the users. In that case there isn't a problem, but since that's the less secure way to run Dovecot, I don't want to encourage it by offering features that work only that way.