On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:18 +0200, A. van Harten wrote:
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I am not a guru. I am just a nerd who just learned the basics of Linux. Everyone says I have to install Dovecot - but no-one is willing to give descent support...
I'm pretty sure your questions would have gotten much worse answers in other IMAP server lists.
"Mails shouldn't be owned by root". Fine, then I change "auth-user" in my dovecot.conf from "root" to "vmail".
auth_user isn't mail user. auth_user can be root. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds lists all users Dovecot needs/uses.
I created a user called vmail, with UID 1000. There is also a group, called vmail, and the GID is 1000. Then what?? Some chown command? Or CHMOD? Made I a mistake on the commands I wrote before?
If you have existing mails/files then yeah:
chown -R vmail.vmail /var/mail
Why do many people EXPECT that I am a guru?
I think having basic Linux administrating skills can be expected when you're installing a mail server.