feature request for setting alternative pidfile

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 12/02/2020 17:43 Bjoern Jacke <lists2020 at j3e.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi,
> 
> because of an unsupported combination of configuration parameters for
> different dovecot services I looked into setting up two dovecot
> instances with different configurations on the same host. It looks like
> running two different dovecot instances on the same host is not easily
> possible because the pidfile seems to be hard-coded and there is no way
> to tell dovecot to use a different one, right? It would be great if this
> could be made customizable.
> 
> Björn

You can use base_dir to specify an instance directory where files are stored under.

Aki