[Dovecot] What owner/permissions for virtual homes?

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 23:04:30 EEST 2011


On 10/28/2011 03:34 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> VirtualUsers.Home.txt:
>
> The directory layouts for home and mail directories could look like one of
> these (in the preferred order):
>
> 1. Mail directory under home, for example: home='/var/vmail/domain/user/'
> mail='/var/vmail/domain/user/mail/'
>
> Who should be the owner of these directories, with that permissions?
>
> Does it make a difference if it's /home/vmail rather than /var/vmail?
>
> Thanks,
> sean
>
>
Also,

it suggests the following configuration:

mail_home = /var/vmail/%d/%n
mail_location = maildir:~/mail

but where does mail_home appear? Also in 10-mail.conf?

sean




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