[Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with postfix?

[Patrick Nagel]

I think /etc/passwd is as close as it gets to your requirements... why not just add the users as system users, and set their shell to /bin/false?

Patrick

"Phil Howard" <ttiphil at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm setting up a Postfix and Dovecot combination.  What I want to do is have
>a user database that (1) is not running from some engine (so not LDAP or SQL
>or such) ... and (2) is completely disassociated from system users (e.g.
>most email users are not in /etc/passwd and most /etc/passwd users are not
>email users).  Ideal would be a one-file solution, which can be managed by
>text editing or simple command line tools.  But what I want is ONE file that
>both Postfix (for valid recipients) and Dovecot (for user login
>authentication) can use together.  An alternative is some way to get Postfix
>to go through Dovecot to query for users (at the time of mail arriving on
>SMTP so it doesn't queue anything that would later be rejected).  This is a
>smallish setup on one server, with probably a max of 50 to 100 users and 50
>or so role account mailboxes over the next year or two.  Any
>recommendations?

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