dovecot - Mar 2007 - dovecot with postfifx with 200 users in /etc/passwd as local user

hi for all, someone have any experiencie with dovecot and postfix with 200
users in /etc/passwd as local user? is a funcionatly, or have some errors in
the future?, and how the users can change they passwords?, now for change
passowrd I have to use the #passwd usuerx and to add a user # adduser,   the
populars commando, please some recomendation?
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On Saturday March 03, 2007 at 02:07:30 (PM) Miler Alberto Garcia Villanueva
wrote:
> hi for all, someone have any experiencie with dovecot and postfix with 200
> users in /etc/passwd as local user? is a funcionatly, or have some errors
in
> the future?, and how the users can change they passwords?, now for change
> passowrd I have to use the #passwd usuerx and to add a user # adduser,  
the
> populars commando, please some recomendation?
I am assuming that these users have system accounts. Is that really
necessary? Could you use "virtual domains / non-unix accounts" to
handle
them instead? You could employ MySQL with Postfix and Dovecot to easily
handle that chore.

http://www.postfix.com/VIRTUAL_README.html

-- 
Gerard

        "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind
is
        beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the
        wheel goes not go nearly as well with pizza!"

            Dave Barry

Tere.
> hi for all, someone have any experiencie with dovecot and postfix with 
> 200
> users in /etc/passwd as local user? is a funcionatly, or have some 
> errors in
> the future?,
I have > 500 users in /etc/passwd, no problems at
all.
> and how the users can change they passwords?, 
They can't.
> now for change
> passowrd I have to use the #passwd usuerx and to add a user # 
> adduser,   the
> populars commando, please some recomendation?
>
Use the same way.

-- 
Mart

Miler Alberto Garcia Villanueva wrote:
> hi for all, someone have any experiencie with dovecot and postfix with 
> 200 users in /etc/passwd as local user? is a funcionatly, or have some 
> errors in the future?, and how the users can change they passwords?, 
> now for change passowrd I have to use the #passwd usuerx and to add a 
> user # adduser,   the populars commando, please some recomendation? 
]# wc -l /etc/passwd
763 /etc/passwd

#rpm -qa |grep "postfix\|dovecot"
dovecot-1.0-0.beta8.2.fc5
postfix-2.2.8-1.2

I use squirrelmail for web-access and use passwd plugin to let people 
change their passwords. No shell access.

FiL

Tere.

Using the latest v1.0.rc30, I'm trying to convert all users mbox -s to
maildir with Dovecot
-s convert plugin (setup from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Convert). But
seems Dovecot
can't create the needed maildir folder into users homedir, as I'm
getting the error:

dovecot: Apr 06 15:16:13 Error: POP3(spam): Mailbox conversion: Failed to create
destination
storage with data: maildir:/home/testMaildir
dovecot: Apr 06 15:16:13 Error: child 7290 (pop3) returned error 89

Creating manually the "Maildir" folder into user homedir, the
conversation works. On the
other hand, Dovecot is capable creating folder "mail" into users
homedir?

Any hint to fix it?

And should the /var/spool/mail/test be automatically deleted by Dovecot after
the
conversation is done?

-- 
Mart