[Dovecot] New Fedora/Sendmail Install Assistance

Jakob Hirsch jh at plonk.de
Wed Nov 2 17:10:51 EET 2005


Please keep list traffic on the list!

Cliff Hayes wrote:

> We are using Dovecot 0.99.14

Ok. Haven't used this for quite a while, so I don't know if I can really
help you.

> auth_userdb = passwd
> auth_passdb = shadow

Dovecot uses the homedir that's in your passwd then.

But I wonder how you want to use IMAP. AFAIK, it needs a separate
directory for every user anyway. At least the indexes etc. have to be
stored somewhere.

You should really read doc/mail-storages.txt: "mbox storage requires an
IMAP root directory where to store IMAP folders and some other
information..."

I you can't provide a directory for every user, dovecot is probably not
the software for you.


More information about the dovecot mailing list