[Dovecot] DoveCot compression to save HDD space

Dick Middleton dick at fouter.net
Wed Feb 14 18:46:14 UTC 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:07 +0000, Dick Middleton wrote:
> 
>> Why not get dovecot to do the delivery; since dovecot already has rw
>> access to 
>> all users' files?  

> No, Dovecot doesn't have access to all users' files. Only root has
> access to all files. Dovecot drops from root to a specific user before
> accessing the files.

Oops, yes; silly me :-)

Dick


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