[Dovecot] LDAP and GSSAPI problems

[Trever L. Adams]

This is very good. A safe default (no import_environment) maybe TZ USER and  
HOME. Just to maintain functionality if people don't set this up.

-----Original message-----
From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
To: Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Cc: "Trever L. Adams" <trever.adams at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 23:55:06 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LDAP and GSSAPI problems

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 01:17 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > (does this really need to be set over and over or can the master process
> > set it and have the environment inherited... it has been a long time
> > since I did any coding related to environment variables accross forks,
> > etc.)?
> 
> Environment is inherited, but Dovecot explicitly clears it at the
> startup of each process, so any unnecessary stuff gets dropped out. But
> it would be possible to add e.g. DOVECOT_PRESERVE_ENVS that lists which
> environments variables should be preserved.

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/cec7fa92ff48