Well, it's not dovecot's responsibility to create non-standard paths.
If you require such a path, it's up to you to do this prior to starting
dovecot during boot.

On Linux/systemd systems there are a few standard mechanisms to create
required directories/files on transient filesystems like /tmp or /run,
but I do not know about such a mechanism on FreeBSD.

On FreeBSD, I have created a simple startup script in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ (see below) which creates extra temporary files
and directories and that runs *before* all services (just a few) that
require these temporary files. I think this is a better solution than
altering the service's startup script, since this will be overwritten
during updates/upgrades.

There are quite a few ports on FreeBSD that have startup scripts not
doing well with preparing or cleaning up...

Robert

#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: tmpfiles
# REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS
# BEFORE:  squid ...

. /etc/rc.subr

name=tmpfiles
rcvar=tmpfiles_enable

start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd=":"

load_rc_config $name
: ${maketemp_enable:=no}
: ${maketemp_msg="Nothing started."}

tmpfiles_start()
{
        # squid
        mkdir /var/run/squid
        chown squid:squid /var/run/squid
        touch /var/run/squid/squid.pid
        chown squid:squid /var/run/squid/squid.pid

        ...
}

run_rc_command "$1"


Am Samstag, dem 12.08.2023 um 19:21 +0000 schrieb k...@denninger.net:
> FreeBSD 13 and its normal init (startup script is in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d as expected), started at boot or if I have need
> to stop/restart it later "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot start" (or
> "restart", "stop", etc.)
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-- 
Robert Senger


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