@nebulon said in Why running dovecot as root?:
@necrevistonnezr this may be more of a case of slightly different priorities and taste, servers running software (and exposed to the internet) are never 100% secure, so hardening is always a bit of an ongoing process which can be as detailed as one wants. We try to strike some balance on Cloudron side, to keep things maintainable and updatable also.
Thanks again - that makes perfect sense.
If I may ask - did you consider other alternatives? If so - what did you rejected and why? Would you choose Dovecot again now?
Feel free to ignore my questions - that's definitely outside of the scope of the platform, would appreciate if you could share some piece of wisdom thought!