On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 23:16:40 -03 Sean Kamath wrote: > On Dec 31, 2019, at 08:30, Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As said, I had UW imap serving system user mailboxes, and now > > cyrus imap serving virtual users. You have to decide. With > > dovecot I have no other experience than compiling it. > > > > I think, I would preffer now UW Imap, because I have only few and trusted > > users, and because it is very simple, no much configuration and > > mantainance needed: it just publishes the mailboxes with imap, > > accessed with the system user/password. > > So I’ve been running Dovecot for I don’t know how long (but started on > Solaris, so at least that long ago). I used to have LDAP running, but > decided it was overkill since I’m the only one who logs into the boxes, the > other three people only read email. > > Dovecot can seem complex, but it’s not at all. It pretty much works out of > the box, with very few changes necessary (and works well with Lets Encrypt > certs as well). > > My first OpenBSD configuration was based on > https://frozen-geek.net/openbsd-email-server-1/ > > My next will be based on > https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-> > dovecot-and-rspamd/, because I want to used rspamd instead of all the stuff > loaded in the first (for some reason, one of the daemons doesn’t start on > boot — it does if I start it manually. Frankly, my machine never reboots, > so I keep forgetting even which one it is that doesn’t start.). I got a > little tripped up doing the 6.4 migration, so I have some catching up to > do. I agree that this is the more informative page, which is somewhat logical - Gilles Chehade. Of course he aims a lot higher than I would dare to. > > Looking at > https://www.tumfatig.net/20150620/opensmtpd-and-dovecot-on-openbsd-5-7/, > it’s a little too copy-pasta for my taste. But even so, it doesn’t > configure dovecot for non-system users, so it’s unclear how virtual users > were set up with Dovecot. Yes and that's where I tripped and ended up having system users which are also virtual users. That is silly. I certainly need somewhat of a book to better get the whole picture. > > Anyway, having run UW imap, cyrus, and dovecot — I run dovecot. I also use > sdbox, BTW, which I believe no one but ancient MH people use. My > non-default configs are pretty much limited to per-host configuration (like > hostname), sieve and SSL. > > I think the biggest hurdle was getting used to LMTP. > > Sean
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