[Dovecot] .temp file, public folders
We recently migrated from UW-Imap to dovecot. Our setup: dovecot 1.2.6 postfix 2.3.3 (from rhel) systemusers without shell access to the mailstore location = maildir:/maildir/%1n/%u:LAYOUT=fs All mails on local disks.
Performance is great compared with mbox. But I still have some unresolved problems, mainly concerning deliver.
Deliver sometimes wants to write a .temp.<hostname>.some-number file in the user's home directory. If the user is over quota (in his home!) he can't receive mails though no mails are stored in his home. The user homes are on a distributed filesystem (AFS). The mails are stored locally on the mailserver as I mentioned before. How can I tell deliver in the configuration to write the temp file at another location ?
We would like to offer public folders for work groups. Reading with imap works fine. But I didn't find a way to tell deliver to drop mails directly in a public folder. Should I use Sieve instead ? Maybe this is rather a postfix question. Postfix is calling deliver. Userdb in the dovecot config is passwd. Postfix looks for local users in: local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps $recipient_canonical_maps unix:passwd.byname Any help is appreciated.
Helga Mayer
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 17:43 +0100, Mayer wrote:
If you're not storing mails in user's home directory, perhaps you shouldn't even be telling Dovecot the user's home dir? It would have been best if you had used something like:
home = /maildir/%1n/%u mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
How can I tell deliver in the configuration to write the temp file at another location ?
You can't. Either don't tell Dovecot about the user's "real home", or upgrade to v1.2.7+ which fallbacks to reading the whole message into memory if it can't write a temp file.
I'm not sure what is the best way to do this. Anyway the important part is that you specify the mailbox name with -m parameter (or use Sieve script). You need to run deliver as some user .. probably create some new "public" user that can't log in but has write access to the public mailboxes.
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