[Dovecot] Config review (2.0.5)

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de
Wed Nov 3 12:34:23 EET 2010


* Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On 3.11.2010, at 7.51, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 
> >> service config {
> >>  unix_listener config {
> >>    mode = 0666
> >>  }
> >> }
> >> 
> >> Now dovecot-lda and others will read the config from the socket rather
> >> than executing doveconf.
> > 
> > I will test this immediately!!
> 
> Forgot to mention: This requires that base_dir hasn't been changed from the built-in default. But that can also be worked around with symlinks, e.g.:
> 
> ln -s /var/run/dovecot /usr/local/var/run/dovecot

ln -s /usr/dovecot-2/var/run/dovecot /var/run/dovecot

(since /var/run/dovecot didn't exist here, I have everything below --prefix=/usr/dovecot-2)

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