[Dovecot] Postfix LDA vs the Dovecot LDA + other quetions

Linux Advocate linuxhousedn at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 24 04:23:03 EET 2009




> >> 
> >>> 3. Quota Management ( Creating, enforcing, notifying ) - is it done thru
> >> dovecot or postfix or are both needed?
> >> 
> >> Depends on if you use Dovecot LDA. If not, then both.
> > 
> > Timo, if we use the dovecot LDA, we do need to create a user "vmail" , with no 
> login priveleges etc?
> 
> No.
> 
> > my  /home/vmail/ directories are owned by postfix. do i then need to make 
> vmail a member of the group?
> 
> You could just execute Dovecot LDA using postfix user.
> 

Therefore, ( copied from dovecot wiki, http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix )


dovecot   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}


I could change the user=vmail:vmail to postfix:postfix ?


      


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