[Dovecot] Setup Question

[Jeff Grossman]

Thank you.  I like that suggestion.  I will probably do that.

Any recommendation on moving the mail over from the old location to the 
new location without messing up any of the date/time stamps on the 
messages?  I use maildir format.

On 4/17/2009 8:41 AM, Romer Ventura wrote:
> Looks about right... I have a very similar setup, but i authenticate 
> to Active Directory via LDAP and it works very good.
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> 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.
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> On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
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>> 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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