Thank you very much, Timo! I apologise if you see me as being rude. It's more that I was getting insane. I can't speak about other IMAP server lists, but perhaps on some fora, I could have got some assistance :) But well, you solved one of my problems. Thank you very, very much in advance! I have no idea which user owns the mail, since auth_user doesn't have any influence on it. I even haven't any idea what to do to new files and new directories, but I'll be working on it.
Albert [QUOTE] Timo Sirainen[/QUOTE] > 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. > -- Med venlig hilsen, Met vriendelijke groeten,
