[Dovecot] virtual hosting

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 6 21:42:03 EET 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 09:06 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > currently I have only domain1 and only:
> > default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir
> > 
> > I'm not really sure how to set this up for additional locations of
> > maildir:/var/mail/vhosts/%d/%n/Maildir (This seems right?)
> > 
> 
> OK, I think I figured out how to do this, if I really need to do it this 
> way at all.
> 
> Keep default_mail_env as it is for my local mail.
> Add a home field into the postgres database for authentication and use 
> that to specify alternative directories: /var/mail/vhost/domain2/username/
> 
> But I won't have anything in the home field for local users.  How does 
> that affect my queries?  I assume empty-strings will be 'ok'?

If you refer to ~/Maildir but there's no home directory set, that won't
work. You probably want to set "mail" for virtual users and leave their
home directory empty.

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