[Dovecot] Setup Question

Jeff Grossman jeff at stikman.com
Fri Apr 17 20:21:59 EEST 2009


On 4/17/2009 9:24 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.
>    
Great.  Thank you for your help.  I think I might try and tackle this in 
a little bit.

Jeff


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