Quoting /dev/rob0 30/08/2013 17:11,
You posted today that it must not be possible to serve both virtual
and system users on a single Dovecot instance. This is wrong.
I don't say it is impossible, I'm just saying it isn't as trivial as you
supposed in your first answer. In fact, I got it _almost_ working, the
only quirk is about mail_location parameter being shared among all
kinds of users, local and virtual, which causes the troubles I try to
explain hereby.
When I use,
mail_location = mbox:~/
* YES this is the best way, afaict, to get the mboxes within the userdb
defined home= variable *
the problems are:
1) local users' home dir is served, which is not appropriate as I want
them to have other files, not only emails, especially the ~/.forward file,
2) I need to setup the smtp daemon or its LDA to write to local users'
~/inbox or make a link to /var/(spool/)mail/%u. Otherwise the local
users don't get any INBOX as the :INBOX= part is missing in the
mail_location declaration.
(everything is fine for virtual users)
When I use,
mail_location = mbox:~/mail/
the problems are:
1) I have to create the 'mail/' folder in virtual users' imap folder and
move the content to it for every virtual user,
2) I need to setup the smtp daemon or its LDA to write to local users'
~/mail/inbox or make a link to /var/(spool/)mail/%u. Otherwise the
local users don't get any INBOX either as the :INBOX= part is missing in
the mail_location declaration.
When I use,
mail_location = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
it just won't work as the virtual and local users don't share the same
locations for inboxes and this cannot be set with the userdb home= trick.
So here is it, finally (still got the ssl part to fix). I am probably
going to use the second mail_location possibility, it just bothers me to
add a useless folder to virtual users' mail path
(/var/spool/virtual/domain/username.folder/*mail/*).
# dovecot -n
# 1.2.17: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64
protocols: imap
ssl: no
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
first_valid_uid: 6
first_valid_gid: 6
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: mbox:~/mail/
imap_client_workarounds: delay-newmail netscape-eoh tb-extra-mailbox-sep
auth default:
username_format: %Lu
passdb:
driver: pam
args: *
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: username_format=%n /etc/virtual/%d/passwd
userdb:
driver: passwd
args: blocking=yes
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=mail gid=mail home=/var/spool/virtual/%d/%n.imap
option as I didn't couldn't find
Pierre-Philipp
