On 4/17/2009 8:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to mailbox_transport.
I have a few questions to make sure I am thinking correctly. All of my users are system users. Their mail is delivered directly to their "/home/<user>/Maildir" directory. Everything works great and I have no problems. Here is what I am thinking of doing.
- Create a new vmail user and group.
- Have all mail delivered for each user to the "/home/vmail/<user>/" directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
- Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to "mail_location = /home/vmail/%u
- Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master setting in dovecot.conf
- Switch Postfix's main.cf to use "mailbox_transport = dovecot" and put the following line in master.cf:
- dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DR user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
- Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can offer me. Okay, I made the change to using mailbox_transport instead of mailbox_command in Postfix. I followed the above steps only having to change one thing. Line 5.1 was wrong. I needed it to say "-d ${user}" instead of recipient. It was looking for user@domain instead of just user which is was exists in my userdb file. I decided against putting everything in "/home/vmail/domain/user" because when I would log in via IMAP it didn't know my domain name. I am assuming that is once again because my userdb only has user names and not domains. Just I just went with "/home/vmail/user" and it is working. I don't think I will be using more than one domain, so it should be fine.
Thanks for everybody's help with this. Rather painless. The only problem I had was with the user name but I got it resolved.
Jeff