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On 12/01/2022 10:14, Dale wrote: |
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> I tried to set up dovecut once but failed. I guess I better get back on |
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> that since I use Seamonkey to do my email with. I don't like |
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> Thunderbird and sadly may not like much of the other email methods either. |
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I've mentioned it before, but DON'T modify the dovecot.conf file. Look |
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down the bottom it references a local config file. Create that and shove |
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all your config in there, then it will survive a dovecot update :-) |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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The below is the contents of my local.conf, which gives me local users |
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in passwd, and virtual users in /etc/dovecot/passwd ... |
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# authentication configuration |
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auth_verbose = yes |
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auth_mechanisms = plain |
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passdb { |
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driver = passwd-file |
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args = /etc/dovecot/passwd |
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} |
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userdb { |
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driver = static |
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args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u |
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} |
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