On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Trever L. Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/25/2012 01:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: > > Now what I would like to know is, which is better for "virtual > hosting" Maildir or mbox? > > > Basically my requirement is that I would like to separate users via > either individual folders and then put each user's mbox or Maildir in > the created directory, or simply name each mbox or Maildir according > to the user name. > > > First up is this possible? > > > Secondly, how would I go about doing it? > > Sorry, I missed this at first. It is quite simple. I don't store it in > passwd or any other place, since you are doing vmail, you might find this > easiest: > > in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf (where mail_location is): > > mail_home = /home/vmail/%Ld/%Ln > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > > in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf (after paragraph “# System user and > group used to access mails...”): > > mail_uid=vmail > mail_gid=vmail > > Obviously, vmail may not be your user for vmail. Also, some of my notes may > no longer be accurate for location, just find where it exists and edit. > > I hope this helps. Of course, this is a Maildir setup. mbox is probably very > similar, but I have had too many mbox style mail queues go south losing all > of the mail (or more than one would like), so I do Maildir, even though it > isn't necessarily the best use of disk space. > > Trever > -- > "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov
Thanks for the responses! Sorry if I reply to every single one in this email however, I am using Gmail's awful Web UI so I don't really have much control over what I'm doing...... To start with the reason I'm not using LDAP is because I couldn't find enough information on how to set it up! I did post here a couple of times but got no responses...... so I figured it was something that people either didn't know or found trivial. I'll take a look at the above config for Maildir format as briefly playing around with mbox it seems that folders on the / root (parent) IMAP directory are stored separately. It may be better if everything got stored under the Maildir heading.... I've previously **only** ever worked with Maildir but I was told that there are some benefits to mbox which is why I decided to try to use it here! Regards, Kaya
