From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 26 22:34:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF1516A41A for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FE813C459 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so4591130waf.3 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:34:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=IClLfJ5T3WYcHSSRdSS0O1u4ii4Z3J+CKvvuyr/A/yY=; b=l+ArTxdXrsD7vmvpbYxEtvomTaPsCazn15H0KOm1NZJM/AXbZa6qDx/Jnkye+knE3VZgG3cc2FSypIwqFlvlc/q5W4pzeT2BrdbP/pcoZtXzo5X75m7gdGRQzQ3slPANkZkjUIKo9EhnCyNQyXlWEt+5GxllNpYLfd/Fhby0mkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=aK5RZRpFD0ktS8kssTXQesGoQS3dzrkOICj/P/q6vG5wpRQx5NPbZcbkHa0ZoNf22zO1jJ5tAs0PJMOeA+qOsHlyiFJmYHn6b6K+CPyQRaK+619nLrsZQsfcP58CNGvRbdnM3AMkkvxIwUZiypV+v2l4wuez8yC7oznsI3LEPa4= Received: by 10.115.77.1 with SMTP id e1mr5615987wal.103.1198708467046; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.10? ( [71.221.187.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k14sm12304374waf.33.2007.12.26.14.34.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:34:26 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Falanga To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:34:03 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712261534.03553.af300wsm@gmail.com> Subject: dovecot questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:34:27 -0000 Hi, I'm trying to install and configure Dovecot. Thanks to the efforts of the port maintainer for Dovecot, installation was mindless. However, configuration isn't quite so simple. There were several in this list that suggested the use of Dovecot when I inquired for suggestions as to a good POP/IMAP server. So, I'm hoping that these same folks can offer help in getting me running. The WIKI for Dovecot is helpful, but seems to assume much in terms of what the reader will understand. How do I add users to the system? If I've done my work correctly, I've setup my Dovecot system to store virtual users in a PostgreSQL database. However, how do I add users? Also, with respect to the configuration file (dovecot.conf) why are there so many passdb/userdb? If I have passdb sql "turned on", should I "turn off" all other passdb sections? What is the significance of the userdb static { } section in that file? It appears that it is necessary for use if using a single user to access several mailboxes (i.e. virtual users which is what I want to implement). Is this true? If I'm understanding things correctly, the next, very important item, is how do I setup new users and how would those users then manage things like passwords, etc.? Andy