[Dovecot] Postfix LDA vs the Dovecot LDA + other quetions

[Timo Sirainen]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Linux Advocate wrote:

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>
>>
>> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 23:58 -0800, Linux Advocate wrote:
>>> 2. What is the benefit of using  Dovecot's SASL as compared to  
>>> Cyrus SASL? Is
>> there better performance?
>>
>> Probably not, but I've always hated configuring Cyrus SASL. It's  
>> not as
>> flexible and the error and debug messages are worse.
>>
>>> 3. Quota Management ( Creating, enforcing, notifying ) - is it  
>>> done thru
>> dovecot or postfix or are both needed?
>>
>> Depends on if you use Dovecot LDA. If not, then both.
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> Timo, if we use the dovecot LDA, we do need to create a user  
> "vmail" , with no login priveleges etc?

No.

> my  /home/vmail/ directories are owned by postfix. do i then need to  
> make vmail a member of the group?

You could just execute Dovecot LDA using postfix user.

> Or will it be easier to make /home/vmail to be owned by user vmail?  
> in this scenario, we need not worry about postfix access bcos its  
> dovecot's LDA that is writing and reading from /home/vmail?

I'd recommend using vmail user in any case. Dovecot (LDA or IMAP or  
POP3) really doesn't need access to Postfix's private files.