Set up the users in /etc/dovecot/passwd for Dovecot authentication and /etc/postfix/vmailbox for postfix users. Not possible to use one file for two of them because the formats are markedly different.
Alexander ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Howard" <ttip...@gmail.com> To: <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:32 PM Subject: [Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with postfix? > I'm setting up a Postfix and Dovecot combination. What I want to do is have > a user database that (1) is not running from some engine (so not LDAP or SQL > or such) ... and (2) is completely disassociated from system users (e.g. > most email users are not in /etc/passwd and most /etc/passwd users are not > email users). Ideal would be a one-file solution, which can be managed by > text editing or simple command line tools. But what I want is ONE file that > both Postfix (for valid recipients) and Dovecot (for user login > authentication) can use together. An alternative is some way to get Postfix > to go through Dovecot to query for users (at the time of mail arriving on > SMTP so it doesn't queue anything that would later be rejected). This is a > smallish setup on one server, with probably a max of 50 to 100 users and 50 > or so role account mailboxes over the next year or two. Any > recommendations? >
