Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
Looks about right... I have a very similar setup, but i authenticate
to Active Directory via LDAP and it works very good.
If you have or may get more domains i would set up mail_location to
something like this: /home/vmail/%d/%u that way you are ready for
growth and everything is kept organized by domains. Just a thought.
On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly
with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am
going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to
mailbox_transport. I have a few questions to make sure I am
thinking correctly. All of my users are system users. Their mail
is delivered directly to their /home/user/Maildir directory.
Everything works great and I have no problems. Here is what I am
thinking of doing.
1. Create a new vmail user and group.
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the /home/vmail/
user/
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to
mail_location
= /home/vmail/%u
4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
setting in dovecot.conf
5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use mailbox_transport = dovecot and
put the following line in master.cf:
1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the
mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a
copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can
offer me.
# 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl.key
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
plugin:
sieve: sieve
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
Thank you. I like that suggestion. I will probably do that.
Any recommendation on moving the mail over from the old location to the
new location without messing up any of the date/time stamps on the
messages? I use maildir format.
On 4/17/2009 8:41 AM, Romer Ventura wrote:
Looks about right... I have a very similar setup, but i authenticate
to Active Directory via LDAP and it works very good.
If you have or may get more domains i would set up mail_location to
something like this: /home/vmail/%d/%u that way you are ready for
growth and everything is kept organized by domains. Just a thought.
On Apr 17, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly
with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am
going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to
mailbox_transport. I have a few questions to make sure I am thinking
correctly. All of my users are system users. Their mail is
delivered directly to their /home/user/Maildir directory.
Everything works great and I have no problems. Here is what I am
thinking of doing.
1. Create a new vmail user and group.
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the /home/vmail/user/
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to mail_location
= /home/vmail/%u
4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
setting in dovecot.conf
5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use mailbox_transport = dovecot and
put the following line in master.cf:
1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the
mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a
copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can
offer me.
# 1.2.rc3: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian squeeze/sid
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/ssl.crt
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/private/ssl.key
ssl_cipher_list: ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
passdb:
driver: pam
userdb:
driver: passwd
plugin:
sieve: sieve
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the /home/vmail/user/
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
..
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the
mail?
cp -a
userdb:
driver: passwd
You'll probably want to use userdb static now. Or if deliver needs to
verify that the user exists, use something like:
userdb passwd {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/user/
}
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On 4/17/2009 8:46 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the /home/vmail/user/
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
..
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the mail?
cp -a
userdb:
driver: passwd
You'll probably want to use userdb static now. Or if deliver needs to
verify that the user exists, use something like:
userdb passwd {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/user/
}
I don't know if deliver would need to know if the user exists. If I
decide to go with the example above, would the home directory be
/home/vmail/%u or would it be as you entered above?
Also, when I do the cp -a command to copy the mail over, I also need to
change all ownership to vmail:vmail, correct?
Thanks for all of your help with this.
Jeff
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:10 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
You'll probably want to use userdb static now. Or if deliver needs to
verify that the user exists, use something like:
userdb passwd {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/user/
}
I don't know if deliver would need to know if the user exists. If I
decide to go with the example above, would the home directory be
/home/vmail/%u or would it be as you entered above?
Oh, sorry, /home/vmail/%u of course.
Also, when I do the cp -a command to copy the mail over, I also need to
change all ownership to vmail:vmail, correct?
Right.
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Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On 4/17/2009 9:24 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:10 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
You'll probably want to use userdb static now. Or if deliver needs to
verify that the user exists, use something like:
userdb passwd {
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/user/
}
I don't know if deliver would need to know if the user exists. If I
decide to go with the example above, would the home directory be
/home/vmail/%u or would it be as you entered above?
Oh, sorry, /home/vmail/%u of course.
Also, when I do the cp -a command to copy the mail over, I also need to
change all ownership to vmail:vmail, correct?
Right.
Great. Thank you for your help. I think I might try and tackle this in
a little bit.
Jeff
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On 4/17/2009 8:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly
with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am going
to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to mailbox_transport.
I have a few questions to make sure I am thinking correctly. All of
my users are system users. Their mail is delivered directly to their
/home/user/Maildir directory. Everything works great and I have
no problems. Here is what I am thinking of doing.
1. Create a new vmail user and group.
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the /home/vmail/user/
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to mail_location
= /home/vmail/%u
4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
setting in dovecot.conf
5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use mailbox_transport = dovecot and
put the following line in master.cf:
1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a
copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can
offer me.
Okay, I made the change to using mailbox_transport instead of
mailbox_command in Postfix. I followed the above steps only having to
change one thing. Line 5.1 was wrong. I needed it to say -d ${user}
instead of recipient. It was looking for u...@domain instead of just
user which is was exists in my userdb file. I decided against putting
everything in /home/vmail/domain/user because when I would log in via
IMAP it didn't know my domain name. I am assuming that is once again
because my userdb only has user names and not domains. Just I just went
with /home/vmail/user and it is working. I don't think I will be
using more than one domain, so it should be fine.
Thanks for everybody's help with this. Rather painless. The only
problem I had was with the user name but I got it resolved.
Jeff
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On 4/17/2009 12:39 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
On 4/17/2009 8:14 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
I really want to try and get this plus addressing working correctly
with Dovecot and Postfix. After doing some reading I think I am
going to change my Postfix setup from mailbox_command to
mailbox_transport. I have a few questions to make sure I am thinking
correctly. All of my users are system users. Their mail is
delivered directly to their /home/user/Maildir directory.
Everything works great and I have no problems. Here is what I am
thinking of doing.
1. Create a new vmail user and group.
2. Have all mail delivered for each user to the /home/vmail/user/
directory. All mail will be owned by vmail, but that is okay
since Dovecot is the only thing touching the mail files anyway.
3. Change the mail_location setting in dovecot.conf to mail_location
= /home/vmail/%u
4. Uncomment the auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
setting in dovecot.conf
5. Switch Postfix's main.cf to use mailbox_transport = dovecot and
put the following line in master.cf:
1. dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DR user=vmail:vmail
argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d
${recipient} -n -m ${extension}
6. Copy the current users mail to the new vmail location. What is
the best way to copy it preserving date and time stamps on the
mail?
Did I cover all of the steps are am I missing something? Here is a
copy of my current dovecot -n output. Thanks for any help you can
offer me.
Okay, I made the change to using mailbox_transport instead of
mailbox_command in Postfix. I followed the above steps only having to
change one thing. Line 5.1 was wrong. I needed it to say -d
${user} instead of recipient. It was looking for u...@domain instead
of just user which is was exists in my userdb file. I decided against
putting everything in /home/vmail/domain/user because when I would
log in via IMAP it didn't know my domain name. I am assuming that is
once again because my userdb only has user names and not domains.
Just I just went with /home/vmail/user and it is working. I don't
think I will be using more than one domain, so it should be fine.
Thanks for everybody's help with this. Rather painless. The only
problem I had was with the user name but I got it resolved.
Jeff
I have come across my more problem. If somebody sends mail to JEFF
instead of jeff it is saying user unknown. How do I tell the pipe
command in Postfix to lowercase the username but not the extension?
Thanks,
Jeff
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:05 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: I have come across my more problem. If somebody sends mail to JEFF instead of jeff it is saying user unknown. How do I tell the pipe command in Postfix to lowercase the username but not the extension? You can also do this in Dovecot. For example auth_username_format=%Lu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Setup Question
On 4/17/2009 1:43 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 13:05 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: I have come across my more problem. If somebody sends mail to JEFF instead of jeff it is saying user unknown. How do I tell the pipe command in Postfix to lowercase the username but not the extension? You can also do this in Dovecot. For example auth_username_format=%Lu I just found that parameter. I just set it and restarted Dovecot. Going to test it right now. Thanks.
