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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Linux Advocate wrote:

>>> 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 ?


I just heard that Postfix doesn't allow you to do that (as you would  
have noticed too). So just use vmail.