I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly with
Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am going to
change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to mailbox_transport. I
have a few questions to make sure I am thinking correctly. All of my
users are system users. Their mail is delivered directly to their
"/home/<user>/Maildir" directory. Everything works great and I have no
problems. Here is what I am thinking of doing.
1. Create a new vmail user and group.
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the "/home/vmail/<user>/"
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to "mail_location
= /home/vmail/%u
4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
setting in dovecot.conf
5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use "mailbox_transport = dovecot" and
put the following line in master.cf:
1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a copy
of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can offer me.
# 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl.key
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
plugin:
sieve: sieve
