On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 21:47 +0100, Peter Boy wrote:
> > Am 11.01.2021 um 19:24 schrieb Bill Oliver <ven...@billoblog.com>:
> > 
> > So, I am setting up some forum software on a VPS server I have
> > rented
> > and would like to invite users to have access to the forum *and* an
> > email account, but nothing else.
> > 
> > I have dovecot set up, and make roundcube available as the web-
> > based
> > mail client.
> > 
> > The only thing I know to do is to add them as a user, which
> > basically
> > gives them a shell, and I'm not enthusiastic about that.
> 
> I hope I do not misunderstand your requirements. You need not set up
> a system user to allow mail usage. You just create all your mail
> users in dovecot (/etc/dovecot/users) using doveadm and configure
> postfix to authenticate against dovecot (virtual mailboxes in postfix
> speech). The mail ist stored at e.g. /home/vmail/<domain>/<user> and
> everything is managed by dovecot (vmail being the dovecot process
> owner).
> 
> [snip]

Thanks.  I had no idea. Dovecot seems a bit opaque to me.  I'll read up
on it.

billo
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