Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2020-01-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 23:16:40 -03 Sean Kamath wrote: > On Dec 31, 2019, at 08:30, Roderick 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. > >

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2020-01-01 Thread Sean Kamath
On Dec 31, 2019, at 08:30, Roderick 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 tru

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > system user XOR virtual user > That's what I have to setup now. Correct? 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

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2019-12-31 14:10, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I believe the mail boxes are chrooted into too. Actually that may be incorrect with the chroot being more broad than that as they should be owned by root otherwise!

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:25:30 -03 Jona Joachim wrote: > On 2019-12-31, Roderick wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my > >> local network. > >> It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...] > >>

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On 2019-12-31 13:13, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I regret having mentioned fetchmail. > It happens as part of setting up dovecot with virtual users. Do you need virtual users. I saw all the guides recommending this and wrote scripts to manage system users instead. Every box is owned by the login user a

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:36:38 -03 Roderick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > Is dovecot or fetchmail who create the mailboxes?! > > > > fetchmail doesn't configure anything, especially not mailboxes. > > I regret having mentioned fetchmail. > > It happens as part of s

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > Is dovecot or fetchmail who create the mailboxes?! > fetchmail doesn't configure anything, especially not mailboxes. > I regret having mentioned fetchmail. > It happens as part of setting up dovecot with virtual users. If they are virtual users, why

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2019-12-31, Roderick wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my >> local network. >> It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...] >> user username1@foodomain.local.fantasea mailbox is owned by vmail [...

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 09:47:03 -03 Roderick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my > > local network. > > It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...] > > user username1@foodomain.local.fantasea mail

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my > local network. > It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...] > user username1@foodomain.local.fantasea mailbox is owned by vmail [...] > Obviously dovecot has other ideas a

ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

2019-12-31 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Greetings, I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my local network. It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. There is no functional problem with the setup just this concern. I can't manage to get around this: /usr/libexec/security: "# Mailboxes should be owned by