On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 21:47 +0100, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am 11.01.2021 um 19:24 schrieb Bill Oliver
<vendor(a)billoblog.com>:
>
> So, I am setting up some forum software on a VPS server I have
> rented
> and would like to invite users to have access to the forum *and* an
> email account, but nothing else.
>
> I have dovecot set up, and make roundcube available as the web-
> based
> mail client.
>
> The only thing I know to do is to add them as a user, which
> basically
> gives them a shell, and I'm not enthusiastic about that.
I hope I do not misunderstand your requirements. You need not set up
a system user to allow mail usage. You just create all your mail
users in dovecot (/etc/dovecot/users) using doveadm and configure
postfix to authenticate against dovecot (virtual mailboxes in postfix
speech). The mail ist stored at e.g. /home/vmail/<domain>/<user> and
everything is managed by dovecot (vmail being the dovecot process
owner).
[snip]
Thanks. I had no idea. Dovecot seems a bit opaque to me. I'll read up
on it.
billo