I'm redesigning our mail server which holds several hundred mailboxes - most are local system users and some are virtual domains that we host. I understand that the 1.0x stable release allows for multiple auth mechinisms, so that I could use both PAM for local users and a passwd-file for the virtuals. If I want to stick with 0.99x can I mix and match in a single passwd-file the username/passwd for both local and virtual users? In dovecot.conf I'd have something like: default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir auth-userdb = /etc/dovecot/passwd-file auth-passdb = /etc/dovecot/passwd-file

then in passwd-file I'd enter: # local users localuser1:<passwd>:501:501::::: localuser2:<passwd>:502:502::::: ... #virtual domains virt1@example1.com:<passwd>:5001:5001::/var/vmail/%d/%u:/bin/false::INBOX=/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir postmaster@example1.com:<passwd>:5001:5001::/var/vmail/%d/%u:/bin/false::INBOX=/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir virt1@example2.com:<passwd>:5001:5001::/var/vmail/%d/%u:/bin/false::INBOX=/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir postmaster@example2.com:<passwd>:5001:5001::/var/vmail/%d/%u:/bin/false::INBOX=/var/vmail/%d/%u/Maildir ...

Would this combination work?

Thanks, Micha