Hi there, im new to dovecot but I made my way trough configuring it. I almost get it running at least for one IMAP user. The problem is I got no local user thus no home directories, all Mailboxes are in mbox format under: /var/spool/mail: Looks like this:

-SNIP- drwx------ 3 web1p2 poponly 19 2004-08-13 00:05 indexes -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 2004-03-26 21:51 nobody -rw------- 1 root root 0 2004-03-26 21:51 root -rw------- 1 web1p2 poponly 14 2004-08-13 00:10 .subscriptions -rw------- 1 web1p2 poponly 8571 2004-08-13 00:10 Trash -rw-rw---- 1 web0p1 root 23068262 2004-08-12 21:27 web0p1 -rw-rw---- 1 web0p2 root 17749 2004-08-12 23:55 web0p2 ... -SNAP

I´ve set up the mail-environment this way: default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/mail/indexes/%u

The problem is, that the directory "indexes" has permisions that only the owner can write to (well, I could change permissions, but?) and that the ".subscription" file and "Trash" folder is directly in this directory. So if I add a second user (e.g. web0p1) I got error messages imho due to the use of the "same" folder....?

What would be the proposed setup for this system with mostly non-local users without real home directories and all their mbox in a shared directory?

Thanks for your time!

Daniel