Dovecot as LDA from within exim -- config permissions.

Fabio Tranchitella kobold at kobold.it
Sun Apr 27 06:20:09 UTC 2008


* 2008-04-27 07:10, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> If one enables dovecot to act as the LDA in exim, there is a need to 
> change the permissions of dovecot.conf.
> 
> I've done it as outlined here in the bottom :
> 
> http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/IMAP#Using_dovecot_as_the_LDA
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the most secure way to do it or not.

Setting dovecot.conf as root:dovecot mode 0640 seems reasonable to me; any
better idea? Otherwise I'll apply the change with the next upload.

Best regards,

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Fabio Tranchitella                         http://www.kobold.it
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