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Dovecot, Postfix & Squirrelmail
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:15 pm    Post subject: Dovecot, Postfix & Squirrelmail Reply with quote

This how to is for a basic mail server with unix users, the most common option of a standard mail server...

Two basic settings in dovecot.conf are
Code:
### /etc/dovecot.conf ###
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
  userdb passwd {
  }
  passdb shadow {
  }


as for postfix adding in main.cf
Code:
### /etc/postfix/main.cf ###
home_mailbox = Maildir/

So mails delivered to ~/Maildir will be enough, despite if you use virtual domains or virtual users.
Mail users are UNIX users and instead of mailbox (/var/spool/mail/%u) they have Maildirs ( ~/Maildir).

To be able to read mails for root account you must create an alias for root to a user in /etc/mail/aliases
Code:
### /etc/mail/aliases ###
root: someuser

After that run /usr/sbin/newaliases

Now you can access any mail account from squirrelmail.
So simple...

gerasimos_h

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