[Dovecot] Setup Question

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 17 19:24:44 EEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:10 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > 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/
> > }
> >
> I don't know if deliver would need to know if the user exists.  If I 
> decide to go with the example above, would the home directory be 
> /home/vmail/%u or would it be as you entered above?

Oh, sorry, /home/vmail/%u of course.

> Also, when I do the cp -a command to copy the mail over, I also need to 
> change all ownership to vmail:vmail, correct?

Right.
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