[Dovecot] Virtual User Home Directory, and APOP Clear Text Passwords

Dear all,

Hi.  This is imacat from Taiwan.  I'm new to this list.

I was migrating from Qpopper to Dovecot.  (Qpopper copies the

mailbox when POP3 logged in, which causes quota problem.) Generally Dovecot is nice. However, I have a few questions:

 1. I have a few virtual users, and I'm not using IMAP.  Do I still

have to give them a writable home directory? I mean, they exists only for me to receive mails from fetchmail. They really have nothing but their inbox. But if I do not give them a writable home directory, I got this error in my syslog all the time:

mbox: Can't create root mail directory /home/homeless/mail: Permission denied

 2. I would like to use APOP in addition to SSL/TLS.  Currently

Dovecot saves APOP passwords as clear text. I understand this. But is it possible to have some sort of encoding, for example, Base64? Just to prevent casual reads. I have several users. I do not want to know their passwords just to add them to the APOP database. I do not want other roots to read my passwords, intended or not.

    Encoded passwords also have the advantage that I can use

passwords that contain the colon sign ":". It would be nice if something a little harder than Base64 can be used.

Thank you very much in advance.

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