Am 13.01.2021 um 00:46 schrieb Bill Oliver
<vendor(a)billoblog.com>:
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>:
>>
>
> 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.
I found the following quite helpful:
Thomas Leistner:
https://thomas-leister.de/mailserver-debian-stretch/ (Debian Stretch
2019)
Thomas Leistner:
https://thomas-leister.de/mailserver-unter-ubuntu-16.04/ (older Version)
Nausch (CentOS 7):
https://dokuwiki.nausch.org/doku.php/centos:mail_c7:start
Ivan Tomica (CentOS 8):
https://www.tomica.net/blog/2019/10/self-hosted-email-server
(2019)
If you are a bit fluent in German, I could send you my instructions for our local
installations. I plan to contribute this as part of the Fedora Server documentation /
howtos. But that will take some time.
Best
Peter