On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 11:54 -0700, Kendall Shaw wrote:
Hi,
I am running dovecot 1.2.9 and postfix, and I am trying to setup a public mailbox. My thought is that there would be one system user with a sieve script to deliver messages to the public mailbox. And, I would like to give virtual users access to the mailbox.
Why can't the public mail delivery user be virtual as well?
On this list, I read how you can have both system and virtual users by using passdb and static userdbs. But, I don't understand how this can be combined with namespaces, where I specify the location.
For all virtual users I had:
mail_location = maildir:/var/somewhere/%u/maildir/
I think I need that for virtual users and:
maildir:~/Maildir
for the system users.
Not really.. I think you should just keep everything virtual and create a new virtual user for the deliver user, e.g. "publicmail". That would be just like any other user, except would also have a sieve script in /var/somewhere/publicmail/.dovecot.sieve.
namespace private { location = ? # how do I have the location be different for system and virtual users?
Keep your old mail_location, no need to set this.
} namespace public { location = ? # ditto (for the index)?
location = maildir:/var/public/Maildir:INDEX=/var/somewhere/%u/public-index
or something.
Then as necessary use mailbox ACLs.