On 05/17/2014 11:57 AM, Boris wrote: > >> no - < reads a file and without you are supposed to directly >> paste your certificate in the configuration instead point >> to a file > I see. In all other places I know dovecot references files simply with "/" so > I > still wonder what is so different in this case. >
In the other cases, the configurable parameter is supposed to be a path to a file. So you give it a path, beginning with "/". The certificate parameter takes string, so you would have had to copy/paste your certificate in there. But nobody wants to do that, so there's an alternate way to read the certificate from a file. Fictional example: it's the difference between: valid_users = us...@example.com, us...@example.com,... and valid_users = </path/to/valid/users The leading "<" means "pretend I typed the contents of this file right here." If instead you had, valid_users = /path/to/valid/users then dovecot might think you have one valid user named "/path/to/valid/users."
