<html><head></head><body>So presumably the entire contents of the ssl public and/or private key could be included verbatim in the configuration file without the "<" input pipeline redirection symbol.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 19, 2022 5:25:15 AM AKST, Bernardo Reino <reinob@bbmk.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, necktwi wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">After adding “<“ before ssl_ca file path, macOS mail client complained no <br>more. Why do we need “<“ before file paths? — Necktwi<br></blockquote><br>Because the manual says so? :)<br><br>"The < is mandatory. It indicates that the variable should contain contents of <br>the file, instead of the file name. Not using it will cause an error."<br>(<a href="https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dovecot_ssl_configuration/">https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/dovecot_ssl_configuration/</a>)<br><br>Or is it a rhetorical question?</pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>