Sam Varshavchik wrote:Shaun T. Erickson writes:
I do the following:
# userdb "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" \ > set mail=/var/mail/virtualmail/tales-of-the-wanderer.com/shaun \ > uid=5001 gid=5001 #
You're missing the home directory setting for this account.
It DOESN'T HAVE a home directory. It's a virtual mail account and there is NO system login account for it.
It's all a matter of semantics. The system password file provides a mapping between a login id, and a system uid, gid, and home directory.
userdb fullfills the same exact function. This is an account. The only difference between a so-called "system login" and a "virtual login", is that one uses the system passwd file, and the other uses something else to define the same exact parameters.
Some people like to define the home directory to be the same as the mail directory, in this case, which works for them. I recommend that the mail attribute in userdb should not be used at all, and the home attribute gets set to an otherwise empty directory, whose only contents is a maildir called "Maildir". The default location of maildirs has always been $HOME/Maildir, and this set-up keeps with the tradition.
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