On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:18 +0200, A. van Harten wrote: > Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I am not a guru. I am just a nerd who just > learned the basics of Linux. > Everyone says I have to install Dovecot - but no-one is willing to give > descent support...
I'm pretty sure your questions would have gotten much worse answers in other IMAP server lists. > "Mails shouldn't be owned by root". Fine, then I change "auth-user" in my > dovecot.conf from "root" to "vmail". auth_user isn't mail user. auth_user can be root. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds lists all users Dovecot needs/uses. > I created a user called vmail, with > UID 1000. There is also a group, called vmail, and the GID is 1000. Then > what?? Some chown command? Or CHMOD? Made I a mistake on the commands I > wrote before? If you have existing mails/files then yeah: chown -R vmail.vmail /var/mail > Why do many people EXPECT that I am a guru? I think having basic Linux administrating skills can be expected when you're installing a mail server.
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