Hello,

I have RHEL v4 Linux.

I have always been using exim with teapop (po3 client) for my emails.

I would like to try dovecot (imap) because I would like to implement squirrelmail.

I'm hosting several domains with email each on different IP.

I have the some user names in different domains with my pop3 teapop.

Can I have it with dovecot.

I managed to configure exim to deliver messages for localuser to Maildir directory.

directory = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}/Maildir

and for virtual_users to Maildir directory.

directory = /var/spool/mail/${domain}/${local_part}/Maildir

This is working. Email are delivered.

But I cannot to connect with my Outlook Express to imap server and download them.

I cannot see how dovecot would differentiate between users with the some named in different domains.

I believe that me configurations is not right.

I would like for starters  to have real user to be checked (like in teapop) against /etc/password /etc/shadow file,

and virtual user against

/etc/mail/passwd.domain file

which would contain login:passwd pairs.

Do I need like with teapop different IP for every domain ?

How do I do that?

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm going for a few days vacation I hope that somebody will be able to give me some hints.

I have attached my dovecot.conf file.

regards

Slawomir Orlowski