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

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

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

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,

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

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