On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote:
5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with dovecot.
It should not be this hard ...
Why not? You're really not in a position to make this claim. But having said that...
and frankly almost impossible to understand and configure for such an incedibly simple configuration.
/home/vmail/domain.name/username/cur /home/vmail/domain.name/username/new /home/vmail/domain.name/username/tmp
3 virtual users. All I want is a username and password to access my email.
... you complicated things by wanting virtual users. System users would have been much simpler to set up. Also, you missed the fact that virtual users should have a $HOME directory just like system users:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
The only constructive suggestion I can make here is to scrap it and start over with system users. Let PAM / your OS handle the username and password and other daunting tasks.
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