Re: [courier-users] Virtual Users with authdaemon.mysql and maildir

So, would the optimal set up be:

Set the whole "/home/vmail/domain/user" as the home directory (all would
be owned by the vmail users, since none of these ppl will have OS
accounts), and leave maildir/defaultdelivery options default


??

If so, you may want to add this to the FAQ, because anyone who read any
postfix virtual user documents will probably mess this up like I did...


Thanks,

Keith



Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Keith J Paulson writes:
>
>> Code in authmysqllib.c is:
>> maildir_field=read_env(service && strcmp(service, "courier")==0
>> ? "MYSQL_DEFAULTDELIVERY"
>> : "MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD");
>>
>>
>> This seems to be telling me I need to set the defaultdelivery....but
>> to what?
>
>
> To wherever you will find the account's default mailbox.
>
>> Or should my home be set to '/home/vmail/domain/user'?
>
>
> What you should do is set the home directory field to, well, a home
> directory for the account, which contains, amongst other things
> $HOME/Maildir, which would be the account's mailbox, which will happen
> to be the default location for mailboxes.
>
> By trying to come up with some odd setup where all your accounts share
> the same home directory, but a different mailbox, you're just making
> things more complicated than they need to be, and you will gain
> absolutely nothing for it. When, later, you perhaps decide to begin
> using maildrop, and mail filtering, you will be for a shock to
> discover that you can't use individual maildrop recipes if everyone's
> home directory is the same.
>
>

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