On 27/09/11 17:51, terryjames9...@mm.st wrote: > Hello, > > I'm moving my mail server from Exchange to an opensource one. > > After a bunch of reading, I decided on building a Dovecot2 + Postfix > server in a VirtualUsers-only + Multiple-domains configuration. > > Since my messages will be stored by Dovecot, and the documentation is > really good, I figured that it's smartest to configure Dovecot, then > make Postfix 'fit' to it, sharing the data files that way. > > I read through lots of the Dovecot wiki for v2. > > There are many ways for storing the database data. My goal is to only > have data in one instances, used by both Postfix & Dovecot. > > I'm a little confused about: to do that sharing-in-one-place, do I have > to use SQL or can I use the flatfiles like passwd-db? I think for sure > someone already decided the best approach for this, and maybe I'm not > understanding the logic to it. > > The data I think I need to share are: > > users (u...@domain.com) > passwords > user aliases (mapping us...@domain.com -> us...@domain.com) > domains > domain aliases (domain.com also receives email for domain2.com) > > And I think all of this can be in passwd-db in Dovecot. But I also want > to make sure that Postfix ONLY accepts email for users/domains that > exist, so it has to read that data too. > > Can I do this that way with the flatfiles? Or do I have to use the SQL > approach? >
The problem with passwd(like) files is that they are almost never in the correct format to fit both daemons. The easiest way to use a database. You could check out postfixadmin: it contains the database format you need, the documentation to hook postfix and dovecot into it, and a nice web gui for administrating the list of domains, aliases, mailboxes, passwords, etc etc. -- Tom
