Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 23:16:40 -03 Sean Kamath wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2019, at 08:30, Roderick <hruodr@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

I'll close the lid on this issue for now until I have sorted out and remedied
my mistakes.

Eike

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