[Dovecot] need help with dovecot-lda

[Andreas Meyer]

Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:

> At  9PM +0100 on 15/12/12 Andreas Meyer wrote:
> > Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Before you go any further, please put the virtual_mailbox_maps parameter
> > > back with a map of the valid virtual addresses. Otherwise you'll become
> > > a backscatter source.
> > 
> > Do you mean the old virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox ?
> > But wouldn't that mean I have to care for two user files? vmailbox and
> > the passwd-file of dovecot?
> 
> It doesn't matter how you do it, but you need to reject invalid users
> during the SMTP transaction rather than allowing the mail to bounce
> later. (This is really basic stuff: have you read through the Postfix
> documentation? It make this pretty clear.)

Yes, this is clear to me and I also read through the dovecot-wiki a bit
and especially LDA and LDA-Posfix. ;)

> If you're using a passwd-file userdb in Dovecot, you need to write a
> script to convert it to a Postfix map, and make sure that script gets
> run whenever the source file is updated. (Makefiles are good for that
> sort of thing.) Alternatively, you could switch to keeping your userdb
> in an SQL or LDAP database, and have Postfix query it directly. If all
> else fails, you can arrange to pass the output of 'doveadm user "*"' to
> postmap, though depending on your Dovecot setup you may need to append a
> domain.

Thank you for your hints, Ben! I am glad I have that thing up and running
at least. And I already converted the old vmailbox file that postfix used
to a new one with the valid users so postfix knows them too.

Thinking about SQL or LDAP database is one of the next steps I am considering.
We don't have that much users and taking care of them is not that much work.

Next thing is I want to implement Quota. We are running users with maildir
and mboxes. And of course I want to realize sieve filtering soon or later.

I am glad I got this right now with your help. And learned much again.

> 
> Ben
> 

Andreas