[Dovecot] System Users with IMAP
Steffen Kaiser
skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Nov 11 11:16:19 EET 2009
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Shane Arnold wrote:
> Sorry if this is a dumb questions, but what methods are available for
> retrieving mail for a system user i.e www-data. Basically my setup is just a
> normal Dovecot-IMAP which is working fine for shell users, but I want to be
> able to read mail for system users via IMAP.
I alias them to an sysop-account using subaddressing, e.g.:
root: sysop-hostname
www-data: sysop-www-data
Sieve files them into equally named mailboxes.
If your MTA is able to do so, you can use Dovecot deliver's -m
<subaddress> option.
regards,
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Steffen Kaiser
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