[Dovecot] Setup Question

[Jeff Grossman]

On 4/17/2009 12:39 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> On 4/17/2009 8:14 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.
> Okay, I made the change to using mailbox_transport instead of 
> mailbox_command in Postfix.  I followed the above steps only having to 
> change one thing.  Line 5.1 was wrong.  I needed it to say "-d 
> ${user}" instead of recipient.  It was looking for user at domain instead 
> of just user which is was exists in my userdb file.  I decided against 
> putting everything in "/home/vmail/domain/user" because when I would 
> log in via IMAP it didn't know my domain name.  I am assuming that is 
> once again because my userdb only has user names and not domains.  
> Just I just went with "/home/vmail/user" and it is working.  I don't 
> think I will be using more than one domain, so it should be fine.
>
> Thanks for everybody's help with this.  Rather painless.  The only 
> problem I had was with the user name but I got it resolved.
>
> Jeff
I have come across my more problem.  If somebody sends mail to JEFF 
instead of jeff it is saying user unknown.  How do I tell the pipe 
command in Postfix to lowercase the username but not the extension?

Thanks,
Jeff