On 24.5.2011, at 0.48, Joseph Tam wrote: >>> As to how to stop the mail process from chdir'ing to a home directory >> >> If you don't want Dovecot to use a home directory, don't tell it a home >> directory. > > I'm all for that since I don't seem to have any need for a home directory. > Any idea of how to do it with a passwd-file userdb backend?
Why do you have home directories listed in the passwd-file if you don't want to use them? > I also > tried to override home directory with > > userdb { > driver = passwd-file > args = /etc/passwd home=/bundled/home/$n > } > > but that didn't work out too well. Or is this feature a rephrasing of > the current topic thread "Global fields for passwd-file database". Could be.