[Dovecot] Reading emails, vmail user mail access problems.
David Haggard
tek2001x at hotmail.com
Sun May 9 18:22:30 EEST 2010
Hello,
I have a new installation of Ubuntu 10.04 64bit and all packages are from the Ubuntu repos.
dovecot version 1.2.9
My goal is to have a basic email server setup with imap and pop support so imap users can send and receive email for the company.
Setup: I have a few users that will be using this mail server so I do not need anything advanced and I am ok with creating a user account with a password and managing email addresses manually. I currently have system accounts for a test user and I have setup virtual mailbox as this mail server will host 2+ domains.
Postfix is installed and running, I also confirmed mail flow to this box and from this box is working to the test user created. I can log in with the test username of the system and this is the point at which I have some issues as I am having a permission problem which I think is related to dovecot.
What I am not able to do is download emails via imap client, but I can send emails just fine. If I change the permissions of the virtual mailbox to the test user that is logged in to chmod 777 I can download emails, but I can't do this for each new email to that users mailbox.
/var/vmail/DOMAIN/USER1/cur/ and anything listed here will be owned by vmail so no other user can read it. (can't download emails) as dovecot seems to be trying to use USER1 as a user to read the files. How can I have dovecot read emails as vmail no matter what user logs in? I have tried many config changes using vmail but its failed so I need some advise.
Here is my config:
I edited the DOMAIN to hide the real domain used.
# 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.32-21-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ext4
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:/var/vmail/DOMAIN/%n/
mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock
mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3
auth default:
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/var/vmail/DOMAIN/%n/
Thank you
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