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Asked: 2018-06-06 02:33:12 +0800 CST

What is the purpose of the < (less than symbol) before path in dovecot settings

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In the default dovecot ssl config file the certificate file paths are specified like:

ssl_cert = </etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem

What is the purpose of that < symbol preceding the path?

UPDATE: A comment below contained a dead link to docs detailing this syntax. Here is the current working link which may be helpful to future readers: https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/config_file/#reading-value-from-file

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    It’s to make it read the contents of the file rather than using the literal string “/etc/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem” as the certificate.

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