on 1/9/2008 3:02 PM Andrew Falanga spake the following:
On Jan 9, 2008 3:24 PM, Pascal Volk user+dovecot@localhost.localdomain.org wrote:
Am 09.01.2008 22:51 schrieb Asheesh Laroia:
As they say, I have been schooled. (-:
My apologies - I wasn't aware of these "virtual user with a UID" setups. I was only aware of the "virtual users all share a UID" setup like the thread starter described. What should I say? The Dovecot wiki http://wiki.dovecot.org/ is very informative. :-)
Very informative yes, but at the same time it seems to make the same mistake all people make when writing documentation. There are many assumptions made that a lot of fundamental knowledge of how mail works is known to the reader. For example, the term "mbox" is simply used. It's not really described anywhere (admittedly, that I could find) what mbox is. It took much looking, and in fact one respondent to my question, a week ago, about what mbox and MAILDIR were, didn't respond with a dovecot wiki page but instead a wikipedia page. This really shouldn't be. This is only meant as constructive criticism, I'm not trying to be condemning here.
Andy
Anybody setting up something like a mailserver should HAVE the basic knowledge of these things. If you don't know the basics of how e-mail works, you should have someone else set up your system. It is too easy to mis-configure a mail server and have an open relay or a botted system.
-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!