Thank you very much, Timo!
I apologise if you see me as being rude. It's more that I was getting insane. I can't speak about other IMAP server lists, but perhaps on some fora, I could have got some assistance :) But well, you solved one of my problems. Thank you very, very much in advance! I have no idea which user owns the mail, since auth_user doesn't have any influence on it. I even haven't any idea what to do to new files and new directories, but I'll be working on it.
Albert
[QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE]
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.
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