dovecot - Feb 2020 - feature request for setting alternative pidfile

Hi,

because of an unsupported combination of configuration parameters for
different dovecot services I looked into setting up two dovecot
instances with different configurations on the same host. It looks like
running two different dovecot instances on the same host is not easily
possible because the pidfile seems to be hard-coded and there is no way
to tell dovecot to use a different one, right? It would be great if this
could be made customizable.

Bj?rn

> On 12/02/2020 17:43 Bjoern Jacke <lists2020 at j3e.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi,
> 
> because of an unsupported combination of configuration parameters for
> different dovecot services I looked into setting up two dovecot
> instances with different configurations on the same host. It looks like
> running two different dovecot instances on the same host is not easily
> possible because the pidfile seems to be hard-coded and there is no way
> to tell dovecot to use a different one, right? It would be great if this
> could be made customizable.
> 
> Bj?rn
You can use base_dir to specify an instance directory where files are stored
under.

Aki

On 12.02.20 17:32, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> You can use base_dir to specify an instance directory where files are
stored under.
that works well, thanks!

Bj?rn