On 21.5.2011, at 10.51, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011, I wrote: > >> Gary Duncan <gdun...@engr.uvic.ca> writes: >> >>> Works well except that dovecot still wants to cd to the real home >>> triggering a useless and potentially hindering automount when it >>> invokes the imap or pop3 process specified by mail_executable, ie an >>> lsof of the process shows cwd of /home/<user> and the automounted >>> home. >> I see the same behaviour in 2.0.13, which process tracing of imap >> shows more clearly (/nfs/user is per user mount, /nfs/home/user >> is user home bundle) > > This appears to be done (v2.0.13) in mail-storage-service.c in an attempt to > make sure core files are dumped into a user's home directory
That's one reason, yes. It's also needed when doing chrooting. And in general it's cleaner.. > 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.
