[Dovecot] Setup Question

[Timo Sirainen]

On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:

>  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.
..
>  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?

cp -a

>  userdb:
>    driver: passwd

You'll probably want to use userdb static now. Or if deliver needs to  
verify that the user exists, use something like:

userdb passwd {
   args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/user/
}