dovecot - Aug 2003 - Questions

Hi, I'm still figthing with passwd-file, virtual users and permissions.

I have created the directory /var/spool/virtual/test and inside I've done a
"maildirmake Maildir".
I have a couple of questions :

I use the same passwd-file for auth_userdb and as auth_passdb.
1) What program can I use to create the userdb file ? 
What I do now is to use the htpasswd program and then I complete by hand the
rest of the fields (uid:group:GECOS:home:shell)

 htpasswd userdb test
 password: xxx
 again: xxx

And then vi userdb

test at test.com:ssasZXc00P1H6:502:102::/var/spool/virtual/test/:/bin/false
<--by hand.

I think that if I want to offer virtual mail with imap is very tedious to
complete user by user.

(If this second question does not fall in this list, then don't answer it)
2) I know that postfix delivers in Maildir format, and when the user is a
virtual user, I do the next

 Modify the virtual file ---> test at test.com		test.test.com
 Modify the aliases file--> test.test.com:	/var/spool/virtual/test/Maildir
 postmap hash:virtual
 postaliases hash:aliases
 postfix reload
 
 but when I do a "echo testing | sendmail test at test.com " I receive
an error

Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/pickup[12208]: 95C3717D5C: uid=0 from=<root>
Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/cleanup[12252]: 95C3717D5C:
message-id=<20030818183244.95C3717D5C at slk90.equital.lx>
Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/qmgr[12209]: 95C3717D5C: from=<root at
slk90.equital.lx>, size=291, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/local[12254]: 95C3717D5C: to=<test.prueba.com
at slk90.equital.lx>, orig_to=<test at prueba.com>, relay=local,
delay=0, status=bounced (cannot append message to destination file
/var/spool/virtual/test/Maildir: cannot open file: Permission denied)


I'm confused about permissions. I set the /var/spool/virtual to
dovecot.postfix and the permissions are drwxrwx---


Thanks a lot.

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On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:58, Alejandro Martinez wrote:
> Hi, I'm still figthing with passwd-file, virtual users and permissions.
> 
> I have created the directory /var/spool/virtual/test and inside I've
done a "maildirmake Maildir".
> I have a couple of questions :
> 
> I use the same passwd-file for auth_userdb and as auth_passdb.
> 1) What program can I use to create the userdb file ? 
I do it with text editor as well.
> I think that if I want to offer virtual mail with imap is very tedious to
complete user by user.
You could keep the users in LDAP or SQL and find/build some user
interface to update them easily.
> (If this second question does not fall in this list, then don't answer
it)
> 2) I know that postfix delivers in Maildir format, and when the user is a
virtual user, I do the next
> 
>  Modify the aliases file--> test.test.com:
/var/spool/virtual/test/Maildir
> Aug 18 15:32:44 slk90 postfix/local[12254]: 95C3717D5C:
to=<test.prueba.com at slk90.equital.lx>, orig_to=<test at
prueba.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (cannot append message to
destination file /var/spool/virtual/test/Maildir: cannot open file: Permission
denied)
You're missing the '/' after Maildir. It's trying to open it as
mbox.