From: Thorondir via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org, "Marek Paśnikowski" <marek@marekpasnikowski.pl>
Subject: Re: Abstractio of Dovecot Users
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:25:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9c84539-0357-4922-90f9-25cc5be352f3@thorondir.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6vzd2k.s4g1o7.rttws8-qmf@localhost>
Hi Marek,
On 11/20/23 23:40, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> I would like to ask you, which dovecot service configuration parameters should I look at, for declaration of what I have seen on the net named “vmail”.
>
> My immediate goal is to declare a dedicated inbox for DMARC reports and a bunch of aliases for 'marek' mail account, stored separately from the system's 'marek' account.
Way back when I first started on the journey of email self-hosting, I
found the ArchWiki[0] to have enough information to get me started.
After doing that, do try to understand why it does what it does, because
there is quite a bit of complexity in there.
But in short:
* you create a local user [yes, usually "vmail"] who gets everything
and stores it according to who it's supposed to be for
* the question of "who is it for" is usually answered by entries in a
database or map file
* both postfix and dovecot need to know about and use the database or
map file
Hope that helps,
Thorondir
[0]:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virtual_user_mail_system_with_Postfix,_Dovecot_and_Roundcube
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-22 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-20 22:40 Abstractio of Dovecot Users Marek Paśnikowski
2023-11-22 16:43 ` Felix Lechner via
2023-11-22 17:28 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2023-12-19 18:43 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2023-12-20 9:15 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2023-11-22 17:25 ` Thorondir via [this message]
2023-11-22 17:44 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2023-11-22 18:32 ` Wojtek Kosior via
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