tquidca@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I've poked through the archives and google and have not seen how do do this. Is it possible to virtualize ALL emails on a system? That is, I want delivery only to e.g. /var/mail/vmail/domain.tld/user/Maildir/, and for authentication & userdb to:
- Try /etc/passwd, and if someone is there, automatically append the "default" domain, otherwise,
- Authenticate off a mysql db or similar.
Is this kind of "fallthrough" user lookup and auth. possible with dovecot? I assume the delivery can probably be done by just telling postfix to use dovecot as the local delivery agent.
Thanks for your help!
--JB
I don't know if it's what you want . . . but I recently converted our system to a pure virtual solution using Postfix, Dovecot, OpenLDAP, and Ldap-Account-Manager. A minimum of configuration was needed for Postfix and Dovecot, and now all mail, local users & otherwise, goes to /var/mail/domain.com/username. A single LDAP database holds it all - and I don't have to specify each user's mail folder. I love it when flexible, reliable solutions work together.
Caveat - if you want to use maildrop, you DO need to specify the mailfolder. I'm currently looking for an alternative LDA as a direct result of that - NOT procmail!
-- Daniel