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