Thank you. I like that suggestion. I will probably do that.
Any recommendation on moving the mail over from the old location to the
new location without messing up any of the date/time stamps on the
messages? I use maildir format.
On 4/17/2009 8:41 AM, Romer Ventura wrote:
Looks about right... I have a very similar setup, but i authenticate
to Active Directory via LDAP and it works very good.
If you have or may get more domains i would set up mail_location to
something like this: /home/vmail/%d/%u that way you are ready for
growth and everything is kept organized by domains. Just a thought.
On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
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
