On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 08:42:41PM +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa <r...@rafa.eu.org> wrote:
> Dnia 20.11.2022 o godz. 14:12:30 Viktor Dukhovni pisze: > > > If Postfix tries to create Maildirs in actual home directories specified > > > in > > > /etc/passwd, > > > > When you configure it to do so. The default setting is: > > > > $ postconf -d home_mailbox > > home_mailbox = > > I *want* to have mail stored in ~/Maildir (but only for actual human users > of course, not for system ones). Can I achieve that without setting > home_mailbox ? > > > Best practice is to not use home_mailbox, and store all mail in a common > > tree owned by the IMAP service. And use local(8) only for mailing lists > > and owned aliases, not mailbox delivery, which happens via LMTP, > > virtual(8) or a mailstore-specific LDA. > > IMAP is used marginally on my server. The primary method of accessing mail > is by old fashioned ssh'ing to the server and running a local mail client > that accesses directly the messages stored in Maildir (like mutt). Only when > mail can't be properly accessed this way (eg. it is HTML formatted or > contains attachments), I resort to IMAP client on my PC. > > Therefore I want to use local(8), as I understand it's best suited for this > "old fashioned" style of using mail, ie. real Unix users logging in to their > accounts and running a local mail client. It is simple and I don't have to > care about any delivery agent configuration details. > > Can I achieve the same using LMTP or virtual(8) without too much effort on > configuration? > -- > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > r...@rafa.eu.org > -- > "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there > was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." I ssh to a vm and read locally with mutt (local delivery, mbox format), and if I want to see the pretty pictures, I bounce it (a mutt action) to a separate IMAP account on the same vm (virtual delivery), and Thunderbird on my laptop connects to that account. That seemed to me to be the easiest way to view the occasional email in Thunderbird. Having said that, I think that dovecot can be configured to handle mail in home directories, but I haven't done that. The separate IMAP account sits alongside others in a dedicated dovecot directory. There's a commented out line in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf that looks hopeful: mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u That parameter also accepts "maildir:" as a prefix instead of "mbox:". Anyway, just an idea to consider. cheers, raf
