[Dovecot] Several errors

[A. van Harten]

Thank you very much, Timo!

I apologise if you see me as being rude. It's more that I was getting insane.
I can't speak about other IMAP server lists, but perhaps on some fora, I
could have got some assistance :) But well, you solved one of my problems.
Thank you very, very much in advance!
I have no idea which user owns the mail, since auth_user doesn't have any
influence on it.
I even haven't any idea what to do to new files and new directories, but
I'll be working on it.

Albert


[QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE]
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:18 +0200, A. van Harten wrote:
>> Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I am not a guru. I am just a nerd who just
>> learned the basics of Linux.
>> Everyone says I have to install Dovecot - but no-one is willing to give
>> descent support...
>
> I'm pretty sure your questions would have gotten much worse answers in
> other IMAP server lists.
>
>> "Mails shouldn't be owned by root". Fine, then I change "auth-user" in
>> my
>> dovecot.conf from "root" to "vmail".
>
> auth_user isn't mail user. auth_user can be root.
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds lists all users Dovecot needs/uses.
>
>> I created a user called vmail, with
>> UID 1000. There is also a group, called vmail, and the GID is 1000. Then
>> what?? Some chown command? Or CHMOD? Made I a mistake on the commands I
>> wrote before?
>
> If you have existing mails/files then yeah:
>
> chown -R vmail.vmail /var/mail
>
>> Why do many people EXPECT that I am a guru?
>
> I think having basic Linux administrating skills can be expected when
> you're installing a mail server.
>


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