Re: [Dovecot] from postfix deliver to dovecot deliver

On 23.02.2009 09:13 Johan Hendriks wrote:

One more question regarding this. All the howto's are using a seperate user for the dovecot LDA, like vmail. Now all my mailboxes have the userid and groupid from postfix. Can i use the postfix user for the dovecot LDA?

Citing PIPE(8postfix): user=username (required)

   user=username:groupname
          Execute  the  external  command with the rights of the
          specified username.  The software refuses  to  execute
          commands  with root privileges, or with the privileges
          of the mail system owner. If groupname  is  specified,
          the  corresponding  group  ID  is  used instead of the
          group ID of username.

You may read http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA for more details.

Regards, Pascal

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