Pre-Authentificated Sessions ============================ For debugging purpose or to perform IMAP actions on-behalf of an user, you can use pre-authentificated sessions. You can do this by simply running: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- And you can start talking IMAP via stdin/stdout. This doesn't change process's UID, GID, or get any userdb settings. If you want to emulate a full regular login, you can execute ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap -u username ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course, you may need to run the above command as root if it needs to change process's uid/gid. (This file was created from the wiki on 2011-11-16 14:09)