On 09/30/2009 04:28 AM Jeff Grossman wrote:

I am thinking of trying out dbox format. I am currently using maildir.
Is it possible for me to switch just one user account to dbox while keeping all of my other users on maildir? If so, how would I go about doing that?

Here is a copy of my dovecot -n:

# 1.2.5: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid ext3 base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/stikman-godaddy.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/stikman-godaddy.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_location: maildir:/home/vmail/%u mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 lda: postmaster_address: postmaster@stikman.com mail_plugins: cmusieve sendmail_path: /usr/sbin/sendmail auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: mechanisms: plain login username_format: %Lu passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd args: uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 user: vmail group: vmail plugin: sieve: sieve

Thanks, Jeff

You are using pam for authentication. Are your users only 'mail users'? When your users are only 'mail users' throw one of them out of /etc/passwd. In the next step create an additional passwd like file¹ and add the previously dropped user. Finally configure multiple authentication databases² in your dovecot.conf

Regards, Pascal

1 = http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile 2 = http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases

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