[Dovecot] mixture of virtual and plain users

[Pascal Volk]

On 05/26/2010 04:53 PM Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a mail server (postfix/dovecot) running so far with normal
> local /etc/passwd users for domain example.com.
> 
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> passdb pam {
>   }
> userdb passwd {
>   }
> 
> Is it possible to add virtual domains/users to my setup
> without changing example.com to a virtual domain?
> 
> I can do the postfix part with
> http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_mailbox
> 
> but I'm not sure if I can mix dovecot (IMAP and maybe smtp auth) for 
> both local and virtual users.
> Any hint would be appreciated.

You can use multiple user/authentication databases:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases


Regards,
Pascal
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