[Dovecot] mail_chroot problems / dovecot 1.1rc4

[Michal Soltys]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> Right. If you use mail_chroot or chroot, the home directory points under 
> the chroot. I guess it might be also useful for it not to do that, but I 
> can't change that without breaking backwards compatibility, and I'm not 
> sure if it's worth it to add yet another setting just for that.
> 

So in such case - is there any way to chroot mail processes for userdb 
that can't (or shouldn't) use /./ and can't modify HOME to fit 
mail_chroot setting ? Like system's passwd, or other where changing HOME 
would/could break other things ?

I know what you mean by breaking backwards compatibility in this 
context, but in this way, mail_chroot is practically unusable besides 
custom-userdb + dovecot-only setups. And in this scenario - you can 
simply use /./ (point being, in a way - is there anyone actually using 
mail_chroot / chroot along with stripped HOME paths ?).