[Dovecot] Postfix LDA vs the Dovecot LDA + other quetions
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linuxhousedn at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 24 04:35:37 EET 2009
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Therefore, ( copied from dovecot wiki, http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix )
> >
> >
> > dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
> > flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f
> ${sender} -d ${recipient}
> >
> >
> > I could change the user=vmail:vmail to postfix:postfix ?
>
>
> I just heard that Postfix doesn't allow you to do that (as you would have
> noticed too). So just use vmail.
Ok. but its amazing that dovecot can deliver as vmail, a user who doesnt exist.....how does it accomplish this?
[root at fwgw vmail]# ls -l
drwx------ 6 postfix postfix 4096 Feb 23 18:25 mesara.biz
Do i need to changes the permissions on the above?
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