[Dovecot] Hybrid of linux user accounts and virtual user accounts configuration

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Feb 13 10:29:47 UTC 2014


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On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Derek Winterstien wrote:

> The virtual user part is working 100% with postfix and dovecot accepting mail 
> for each virtual alias and system account holders popping in to retrieve 
> their mail.

So that probably means that you've added an userdb for the virtual users.
We don't know without doveconf -n output.

> The second part is working 50%.  I have email for virtual users going into 
> /home/vmail/domain.com??  where they are supposed to go.  Now, I am very 
> confused on how to configure dovecot to allow folks without system accounts 
> to login and retrieve their email.  I have been going through one guide after 
> another.  When I start changing things I break the first working part, the 
> system accounts being able to get their mail.  Changes to dovecot.conf to get 
> the second working negatively impact the first.

Add yet another passdb section behind the already existing one, as you've 
did with the userdb for the virtual users.

This doc is not out-of-date:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases

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Steffen Kaiser
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