[Dovecot] Deliver virtual user's mail to a specific namespace?
Hello:
I have virtual users set up for the various mailing lists that I subscribe to. Everything has been working well in both Postfix and Dovecot. Postfix is configured to deliver to a specific mbox file within my mbox mail root. I can access retrieve and read email via Dovecot without any issues.
Now I want to make my setup more robust and have these messages delivered to a maildir namespace.
I have configured the LDA within the Postfix master.cf file: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}
I have configured the 'dovecot' transport within Postfix in the transport file: test@lists.schang.net dovecot:
In dovecot.conf I have set up the namespace as follows: namespace private { separator = / prefix = "Lists/" location = maildir:~/MailLists subscriptions = yes }
I'm having a hard time specifying the "Lists/" namespace in my userdb passwd-file: test:{PLAIN}linux:2000:200::/home/brian::userdb_mail=maildir:Lists/test
I can't get the userdb_mail portion to work. For this user, 'test@lists.schang.net', how do I tell Dovecot/deliver to put the message in the 'test' mailbox within the 'Lists/' namespace?
I'd appreciate any insight.
Thank you.
-- Brian Schang
On 01/02/2010 05:23 AM Brian Schang wrote:
… Now I want to make my setup more robust and have these messages delivered to a maildir namespace.
I have configured the LDA within the Postfix master.cf file: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}
I have configured the 'dovecot' transport within Postfix in the transport file: test@lists.schang.net dovecot: … I can't get the userdb_mail portion to work. For this user, 'test@lists.schang.net', how do I tell Dovecot/deliver to put the message in the 'test' mailbox within the 'Lists/' namespace?
I'd appreciate any insight.
Use delivers -m parameter, works also with namespaces since Dovecot v1.1.x. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#Parameters for details.
Regards, Pascal
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Pascal:
On 1/2/2010 7:02 AM, Pascal Volk wrote:
On 01/02/2010 05:23 AM Brian Schang wrote:
Now I want to make my setup more robust and have these messages delivered to a maildir namespace.
I have configured the LDA within the Postfix master.cf file: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}
I have configured the 'dovecot' transport within Postfix in the transport file: test@lists.schang.net dovecot: … I can't get the userdb_mail portion to work. For this user, 'test@lists.schang.net', how do I tell Dovecot/deliver to put the message in the 'test' mailbox within the 'Lists/' namespace?
I'd appreciate any insight.
Use delivers -m parameter, works also with namespaces since Dovecot v1.1.x. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#Parameters for details.
How do I use the -m parameter from within Postfix? Does that need to be included in the LDA definition within master.cf?
I have a total of about ten email address and I'd like each put into a different mailbox. By using the -m parameter, I can set up ten dovecot configurations within master.cf and then map each email address via the transport table. I can see how this will work, but it doesn't seem very scalable. Is there any better way?
Or said another way: the -m parameter to deliver works beautifully when I use it from within procmail for other email addresses. But how do I efficiently use the -m parameter (or equivalent) from within postfix given that I have about 10 namespace/mailbox combinations to put mail into?
Thank you.
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Brian Schang
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Pascal Volk