[Dovecot] mixture of virtual and plain users

[Kapetanakis Giannis]

On 26/05/10 18:01, Pascal Volk wrote:
> 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
>    


I'm also wondering if this would work with namespaces

I have a private namespace for user's inbox
kai a public namespace for public folders.

Would these be visible to the virtual users as well?

Giannis