RE: [Dovecot] New Fedora/Sendmail Install Assistance

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Cliff Hayes wrote:

We are using Dovecot 0.99.14

Ok. Haven't used this for quite a while, so I don't know if I can really help you.

auth_userdb = passwd auth_passdb = shadow

Dovecot uses the homedir that's in your passwd then.

But I wonder how you want to use IMAP. AFAIK, it needs a separate directory for every user anyway. At least the indexes etc. have to be stored somewhere.

You should really read doc/mail-storages.txt: "mbox storage requires an IMAP root directory where to store IMAP folders and some other information..."

I you can't provide a directory for every user, dovecot is probably not the software for you.