On 4/17/2009 12:39 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
On 4/17/2009 8:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly
with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am
going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to
mailbox_transport. I have a few questions to make sure I am thinking
correctly. All of my users are system users. Their mail is
delivered directly to their "/home/<user>/Maildir" directory.
Everything works great and I have no problems. Here is what I am
thinking of doing.
1. Create a new vmail user and group.
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the "/home/vmail/<user>/"
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to "mail_location
= /home/vmail/%u
4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
setting in dovecot.conf
5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use "mailbox_transport = dovecot" and
put the following line in master.cf:
1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the
mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a
copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can
offer me.
Okay, I made the change to using mailbox_transport instead of
mailbox_command in Postfix. I followed the above steps only having to
change one thing. Line 5.1 was wrong. I needed it to say "-d
${user}" instead of recipient. It was looking for u...@domain instead
of just user which is was exists in my userdb file. I decided against
putting everything in "/home/vmail/domain/user" because when I would
log in via IMAP it didn't know my domain name. I am assuming that is
once again because my userdb only has user names and not domains.
Just I just went with "/home/vmail/user" and it is working. I don't
think I will be using more than one domain, so it should be fine.
Thanks for everybody's help with this. Rather painless. The only
problem I had was with the user name but I got it resolved.
Jeff
I have come across my more problem. If somebody sends mail to JEFF
instead of jeff it is saying user unknown. How do I tell the pipe
command in Postfix to lowercase the username but not the extension?
Thanks,
Jeff
