[Dovecot] no local users - mbox all under /var/spool/mail/
Daniel
daniel at kerozene.de
Fri Aug 13 01:34:37 EEST 2004
Hi there,
im new to dovecot but I made my way trough configuring it. I almost get
it running at least for one IMAP user. The problem is I got no local
user thus no home directories, all Mailboxes are in mbox format under:
/var/spool/mail:
Looks like this:
-SNIP-
drwx------ 3 web1p2 poponly 19 2004-08-13 00:05 indexes
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 2004-03-26 21:51 nobody
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2004-03-26 21:51 root
-rw------- 1 web1p2 poponly 14 2004-08-13 00:10 .subscriptions
-rw------- 1 web1p2 poponly 8571 2004-08-13 00:10 Trash
-rw-rw---- 1 web0p1 root 23068262 2004-08-12 21:27 web0p1
-rw-rw---- 1 web0p2 root 17749 2004-08-12 23:55 web0p2
...
-SNAP
I´ve set up the mail-environment this way:
default_mail_env =
mbox:/var/spool/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/indexes/%u
The problem is, that the directory "indexes" has permisions that only
the owner can write to (well, I could change permissions, but?) and that
the ".subscription" file and "Trash" folder is directly in this
directory. So if I add a second user (e.g. web0p1) I got error messages
imho due to the use of the "same" folder....?
What would be the proposed setup for this system with mostly non-local
users without real home directories and all their mbox in a shared
directory?
Thanks for your time!
Daniel
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