On 11/7/25 12:20, Antonio Oliveira via dovecot wrote:
Hi, I'm using dovecot-2.3.21.1 on fedora42. It seems that
increasingly
remote clients are only supporting the full email address as the
login ID
instead of just the username. One such example is Apollo.io, an
AI sales
platform that uses IMAP to connect to a remote server to send and
receive
emails.
The documentation I've found on this appears to be deprecated or
incomplete. Do I want to look for "shared namespace" documentation?
Currently, emails are stored in /var/spool/mail/username. Does
this need
to change to something like /var/spool/[1]domain.com/username?
We've been using full-address logins here for 20yrs or so. We
use / var/mail/<domain>/<uname> for mail storage. No shared namespace
stuff. We use MySQL-based authentication. It's all very easy to set
up.
If you are serving a single domain (or multiple domains that ultimately
deliver to the same mailbox, for example [[email protected]]
(mailto:[email protected]) and [[email protected]]
(mailto:[email protected]) both going to myuser), you don’t need to
store mailboxes under /var/spool/<domain>/myuser. You can simply keep
them in /var/spool/mail/myuser.
We need to use the domain as a path component here to avoid username
namespace collisions, as we are serving many domains. The OP wouldn't
necessarily need that if he's handling one domain, as you observed, but
it's not a bad idea.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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