on 1/9/2008 3:02 PM Andrew Falanga spake the following:
On Jan 9, 2008 3:24 PM, Pascal Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Am 09.01.2008 22:51 schrieb Asheesh Laroia:
As they say, I have been schooled. (-:
My apologies - I wasn't aware of these "virtual user with a UID" setups.
I was only aware of the "virtual users all share a UID" setup like the
thread starter described.
What should I say? The Dovecot wiki <http://wiki.dovecot.org/> is very
informative. :-)
Very informative yes, but at the same time it seems to make the same mistake
all people make when writing documentation. There are many assumptions made
that a lot of fundamental knowledge of how mail works is known to the
reader. For example, the term "mbox" is simply used. It's not really
described anywhere (admittedly, that I could find) what mbox is. It took
much looking, and in fact one respondent to my question, a week ago, about
what mbox and MAILDIR were, didn't respond with a dovecot wiki page but
instead a wikipedia page. This really shouldn't be. This is only meant as
constructive criticism, I'm not trying to be condemning here.
Andy
Anybody setting up something like a mailserver should HAVE the basic knowledge
of these things. If you don't know the basics of how e-mail works, you should
have someone else set up your system. It is too easy to mis-configure a mail
server and have an open relay or a botted system.
--
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
