[Dovecot] Setup Question

[Romer Ventura]

Looks about right... I have a very similar setup, but i authenticate  
to Active Directory via LDAP and it works very good.

If you have or may get more domains i would set up mail_location to  
something like this: /home/vmail/%d/%u that way you are ready for  
growth and everything is kept organized by domains. Just a thought.



On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:

> I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly  
> with Dovecot and Postfix.  After doing some reading I think I am  
> going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to  
> mailbox_transport.  I have a few questions to make sure I am  
> thinking correctly.  All of my users are system users.  Their mail  
> is delivered directly to their "/home/<user>/Maildir" directory.   
> Everything works great and I have no problems.  Here is what I am  
> thinking of doing.
>
>   1. Create a new vmail user and group.
>   2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the "/home/vmail/ 
> <user>/"
>      directory.  All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
>      since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
>   3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to  
> "mail_location
>      = /home/vmail/%u
>   4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
>      setting in dovecot.conf
>   5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use "mailbox_transport = dovecot" and
>      put the following line in master.cf:
>         1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
>            flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
>            argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
>            ${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
>   6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location.  What is
>      the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the  
> mail?
>
> Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something?  Here is a  
> copy of my current dovecot -n output.  Thanks for any help you can  
> offer me.
>
>
> # 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
> base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
> protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
> ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl.crt
> ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl.key
> ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
> 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:~/Maildir
> 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
> auth default:
>   mechanisms: plain login
>   passdb:
>     driver: pam
>   userdb:
>     driver: passwd
> plugin:
>   sieve: sieve