Thanks a lot Noah and Michael for working on this! Michael Biebl wrote: > The patch to add sd_notify is rather trivial. Problem is, that dovecot > unhelpfully clears the full environment. In src/master/main.c, > sd_notify() should be called around/after main_init(). > Unfortunately, at this point master_service_env_clean() has been called, > clearing the process environment, including NOTIFY_SOCKET, which is > passed from systemd to dovecot and is needed to make sd_notify work. > > I haven't found a way how to instruct dovecot not to clear the > NOTIFY_SOCKET env var.
I have no idea if this works, but did you try adding NOTIFY_SOCKET to line 65 of src/lib-master/master-service-settings.c?
