[Dovecot] Setup Question
Romer Ventura
rventura at h-st.com
Fri Apr 17 18:41:05 EEST 2009
Looks about right... I have a very similar setup, but i authenticate
to Active Directory via LDAP and it works very good.
If you have or may get more domains i would set up mail_location to
something like this: /home/vmail/%d/%u that way you are ready for
growth and everything is kept organized by domains. Just a thought.
On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly
> with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am
> going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to
> mailbox_transport. I have a few questions to make sure I am
> thinking correctly. All of my users are system users. Their mail
> is delivered directly to their "/home/<user>/Maildir" directory.
> Everything works great and I have no problems. Here is what I am
> thinking of doing.
>
> 1. Create a new vmail user and group.
> 2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the "/home/vmail/
> <user>/"
> directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
> since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
> 3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to
> "mail_location
> = /home/vmail/%u
> 4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
> setting in dovecot.conf
> 5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use "mailbox_transport = dovecot" and
> put the following line in master.cf:
> 1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
> flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
> argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
> ${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
> 6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
> the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the
> mail?
>
> Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a
> copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can
> offer me.
>
>
> # 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl.crt
> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl.key
> ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
> disable_plaintext_auth: no
> login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
> login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
> login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
> mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
> mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
> auth default:
> mechanisms: plain login
> passdb:
> driver: pam
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
> plugin:
> sieve: sieve
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