Dear Dovecot Mail List,

I have used Dovecot for quite a while to service remote users on my SOHO network. A local not-for-profit asked about getting their own dedicated domain name for mail.

I followed: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_postfix_virtual_hosting to set up a virtual, but the article leaves out system accounts and I have not been able to access both system and virtual users at the same time. I have the following lines:

default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/vmail/%d/%n/ which, when commented out, works for system users default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u which, when commented out, which works for virtual users

If both are uncommented, only system users work.

Wiki-ing and Googling, I learned that namespace could be applied to the problem.

Here is the namespace from the configuration file.

#namespace private {

Hierarchy separator to use. You should use the same separator for all

namespaces or some clients get confused. '/' is usually a good one.

The default however depends on the underlying mail storage format.

#separator =

Prefix required to access this namespace. This needs to be

different for

all namespaces. For example "Public/".

#prefix =

Physical location of the mailbox. This is in same format as

default_mail_env, which is also the default for it.

#location =

There can be only one INBOX, and this setting defines which namespace

has it.

#inbox = yes

If namespace is hidden, it's not advertised to clients via NAMESPACE

extension or shown in LIST replies. This is mostly useful when

converting

from another server with different namespaces which you want to

deprecate

but still keep working. For example you can create hidden

namespaces with

prefixes "~/mail/", "~%u/mail/" and "mail/".

#hidden = yes #}

How do I specify which users use which namespace. Is there a good description of namespaces and how to use them?

Thanks Jens