Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Harlan Stenn
If you're hosting this on the domain where the users will have email, then do you have a good reason for wanting to use virtual stuff? If not, use system users. If you are hosting for another domain (or plan to) I don't have enough info to tell you more - I routinely set up virtual domains (I use

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 05:10:35PM +0200, Simon B wrote: > On 3 Jun 2013 16:49, "/dev/rob0" wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote: > > > > > > 3 virtual users. All I want is a username and password to > > > access my email. > > > > ... you complicated things by wanting vir

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Simon B
On 3 Jun 2013 16:49, "/dev/rob0" wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote: > > 5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, > > documentation with examples that only show extracts of working > > configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Charles Marcus
Most problems like this can be attributed to trying to follow some $Random_HowTo from the internet, rather than reading the dovecot docs themselves. But yeah, ranting like you just did without providing any details at all is totally counter-productive, and is likely to get you flamed - or more

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Hayden
On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:48 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > The only constructive suggestion I can make here is to scrap it and > start over with system users. Let PAM / your OS handle the username > and password and other daunting tasks. +1. I've spent a lot of time waist-deep in dovecot, but one of the

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread Benny Pedersen
dd skrev den 2013-06-03 15:23: Go ahead and flame me to a crisp. why not join the fun of google apps mx ? :) dovecot is not for everyone if you like more help provide "dovecot -n" and if using postfix "postconf -n", what a combo ? -- senders that put my email into body content will delive

Re: [Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:23:09AM -0700, dd wrote: > 5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, > documentation with examples that only show extracts of working > configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with > dovecot. > > It should not be this hard ...

[Dovecot] An unconstructive grumble

2013-06-03 Thread dd
5 hours of configuration attempts, error after confusing error, documentation with examples that only show extracts of working configurations. I really feel like throwing in the towel with dovecot. It should not be this hard and frankly almost impossible to understand and configure for such an in