[Dovecot] New Fedora/Sendmail Install Assistance

[Cliff Hayes]

Jakob,

I don't want to use IMAP.  So, from what you are saying, Dovecot is not for
me then.  Thanks for the info.

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org]On
Behalf Of Jakob Hirsch
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:11 AM
To: Cliff Hayes
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: RE: [Dovecot] New Fedora/Sendmail Install Assistance


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.