On Sunday 18 May 2014 18:21:23 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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."
Thank you for the explanation Michael. I think I understand it now. Boris
