[Dovecot] Questions

[Alejandro Martinez]

Hi, I'm still figthing with passwd-file, virtual users and permissions.

I have created the directory /var/spool/virtual/test and inside I've done a "maildirmake Maildir".
I have a couple of questions :

I use the same passwd-file for auth_userdb and as auth_passdb.
1) What program can I use to create the userdb file ? 
What I do now is to use the htpasswd program and then I complete by hand the rest of the fields (uid:group:GECOS:home:shell)

 htpasswd userdb test
 password: xxx
 again: xxx

And then vi userdb

test at test.com:ssasZXc00P1H6:502:102::/var/spool/virtual/test/:/bin/false <--by hand.

I think that if I want to offer virtual mail with imap is very tedious to complete user by user.

(If this second question does not fall in this list, then don't answer it)
2) I know that postfix delivers in Maildir format, and when the user is a virtual user, I do the next

 Modify the virtual file ---> test at test.com		test.test.com
 Modify the aliases file--> test.test.com:	/var/spool/virtual/test/Maildir
 postmap hash:virtual
 postaliases hash:aliases
 postfix reload
 
 but when I do a "echo testing | sendmail test at test.com " I receive an error

Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/pickup[12208]: 95C3717D5C: uid=0 from=<root>
Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/cleanup[12252]: 95C3717D5C: message-id=<20030818183244.95C3717D5C at slk90.equital.lx>
Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/qmgr[12209]: 95C3717D5C: from=<root at slk90.equital.lx>, size=291, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/local[12254]: 95C3717D5C: to=<test.prueba.com at slk90.equital.lx>, orig_to=<test at prueba.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (cannot append message to destination file /var/spool/virtual/test/Maildir: cannot open file: Permission denied)


I'm confused about permissions. I set the /var/spool/virtual to dovecot.postfix and the permissions are drwxrwx---


Thanks a lot.

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