[Dovecot] System Users with IMAP

Joseba Torre joseba.torre at ehu.es
Wed Nov 11 10:31:50 EET 2009


El Miércoles 11 Noviembre 2009 a las 08:53, Shane Arnold escribió:
> Hi All,
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb questions, but what methods are available
>  for retrieving mail for a system user i.e www-data. Basically my
>  setup is just a normal Dovecot-IMAP which is working fine for
>  shell users, but I want to be able to read mail for system users
>  via IMAP.

You should create alias for this users, to send their email to some 
other account(s); system users are usually risky, so it's better to 
use them only for their supposed mission.

HTH
-- 
Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación


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