On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 21:47 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > > Am 11.01.2021 um 19:24 schrieb Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
