Hello,
I happen to try to make XMail work with dovecot these days.
I don't know if Dovecot is of any interested to you.
However, my choice was this because I've been using XMail for nine years now and
I am pretty happy with it and don't want to drop it under any circumstances..
So here goes what little I know so far about XMail and Dovecot.
Yes, XMail works like a charm with dovecot (that's what people in this list
keep telling
me) and I tried it myself and it seems that it interfaces fully with XMail.
Two key-steps (AFAIK) :
1. cd to /etc/dovecot.conf
copy the original dovecot.conf file (cp dovecot-example.conf dovecot.conf)
edit dovecot.conf and find the line that says :
#mail_location =
uncomment the starting hash (#) or copy it and uncomment the copied line, just
to keep the original untouched)
and you change it to the following :
mail_location =
maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/%d/%n/Maildir
"%d" is for domain names (just the domain names: like example.com)
and "%n" is for mail usernames. So from what you see, you keep the
XMail structure. And _this_ is what I love about Dovecot at the moment.
2. Not even close, you will have to make XMail run with a user named dovecot.
User dovecot should be so "close" to the root user priviledges, as if it's not
that
powerfull a user, either Dovecot _or_ XMail will exit and stop spawning/working.
There's other stuff too. But this should keep you going for a start.
There are other "dovecot.conf" options that need to be closely monitored and
studied.
I am not there yet, because Christmas fell on the way. However, I hope that by
the
end of January, I will have a working XMail/Dovecot installation.
HTH,
spyros
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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:10:04 +1100
> Subject: Re: [xmail] maildir home path for xmail and dovecot ?
>
> Hi Davide,
>
> This raises an interesting question...
>
> How do 3rd party IMAP implementations handle multiple Xmail domains.
> It looks like the IMAP instance is pointed to one Xmail domain only.
>
> Has anyone got any experience with IMAP (any brand) and Xmail with multiple
> domains?
> Can it be done with one IMAP instance?
>
> And Davide (not wanting to be a pita), but are the Xmail native IMAP
> implementation plans still alive?
>
> Rob :-)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:13 AM
> To: XMail Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [xmail] maildir home path for xmail and dovecot ?
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
>
> > Hello people,
> >
> > thank you all for your kind replies.
> > OK, next thing bugging me; Dovecot has an entry in its config files :
> >
> > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> >
> > do I set this to :
> >
> > mail_location = maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/mydomain.com
>
> I never installed Dovecot, but I'd say:
>
> mail_location = maildir:/var/MailRoot/domains/mydomain.com/Maildir
>
>
>
> - Davide
>
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