[Dovecot] replication howto

Michael Grimm trashcan at odo.in-berlin.de
Thu Mar 15 19:28:37 EET 2012


Hi --

On 15.03.2012, at 18:16, Matteo Cazzador wrote:

> with virtual user (i have no system user ) and there are not ssh
> account. So i must use a dedicate account for replication (ssh)
> that must act sync for all virtual mail account.

Yes, that's what I use. I did create a dedicated account for vmail 
with all the necessary ssh stuff in ~vmail/.ssh 

One remark I forgot to mention in my last mail:

>>   service doveadm {
>>        # if you're using a single virtual user, set this to start ssh as vmail
>>        # (not root)
>>        #
>>        user = vmail
>>   }

This part is only needed, if you choose to run device doveadm as user
vmail like I do. 

>>   service config {
>>        # needed to grant access to /var/run/dovecot/config for service doveadm
>>        #
>>        unix_listener config {
>>                user = vmail
>>        }
>>   }

Regards,
Michael



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