On 06/25/2012 08:37 AM, Trever L. Adams 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
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"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." -- Isaac Asimov
Hi, I'm just responding as the OP to say that the above was what I was
looking for!
Thanks Trever :-)
Everything is setup and working fine now.
Though responding quite late and of course having read through the
latest messages within the thread I don't feel that my users will notice
any difference between mbox or mdbox and Maildir format, speedwise.
The reasoning behind this is that my end users unfortunately are all
using M$ Outlook which is absolute garbage! FULL STOP!
Comparing the IMAP capability speeds between Thunderbird and Outlook
linking to my server yielded that I was able to get around 150Mbps
transfer rate using T-Bird while Outlook only managed a few 100's of
kbps. I think it's because 2010 relies heavily on PST's (whatever they
are....) and the fact it is ultimately M$ also so it's basically built
by nincompoops to be sold at hideous prices and even higher tech-support
prices.
In all fairness to Outlook I did manage to get a pathetic ~2Mvbps tops
of transfer...... :-S
Luckily I'm the only one using T-Bird or Alpine so am fine :-)
Can't send any mail though as need to go through Exchange - there's no
winning in the corporate world :-(
Regards,
Kaya
