On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams trever@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org wrote:
On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:
Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual hosting" Maildir or mbox?
Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via either individual folders and then put each user's mbox or Maildir in the created directory, or simply name each mbox or Maildir according to the user name.
First up is this possible?
Secondly, how would I go about doing it?
Sorry, I missed this at first. It is quite simple. I don't store it in passwd or any other place, since you are doing vmail, you might find this easiest:
in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf (where mail_location is):
mail_home = /home/vmail/%Ld/%Ln mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf (after paragraph “# System user and group used to access mails...”):
mail_uid=vmail mail_gid=vmail
Obviously, vmail may not be your user for vmail. Also, some of my notes may no longer be accurate for location, just find where it exists and edit.
I hope this helps. Of course, this is a Maildir setup. mbox is probably very similar, but I have had too many mbox style mail queues go south losing all of the mail (or more than one would like), so I do Maildir, even though it isn't necessarily the best use of disk space.
Trever
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov
Thanks for the responses!
Sorry if I reply to every single one in this email however, I am using Gmail's awful Web UI so I don't really have much control over what I'm doing......
To start with the reason I'm not using LDAP is because I couldn't find enough information on how to set it up! I did post here a couple of times but got no responses...... so I figured it was something that people either didn't know or found trivial.
I'll take a look at the above config for Maildir format as briefly playing around with mbox it seems that folders on the / root (parent) IMAP directory are stored separately. It may be better if everything got stored under the Maildir heading.... I've previously **only** ever worked with Maildir but I was told that there are some benefits to mbox which is why I decided to try to use it here!
Regards,
Kaya