cheatsheets/dovecot.org

Some interesting wiki pages:

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/home_directories_for_virtual_users/#home-directories-for-virtual-users Perhaps I should have virtual users that have a home directory like so:

home/joshua@gnucode.me/ /home/james@gnucode.me

or

home/gnucode.me/joshua/ /home/gnu-hurd.com/joshua

or

var/mail/joshua@gnucode.me/ /var/mail/james@gnucode.me

or

var/mail/gnucode.me/joshua/ /var/mail/gnu-hurd.com/james

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/

https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/

Testing dovecot...is it running?

https://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation#Check_that_it.27s_running

finding my mail

https://wiki.dovecot.org/FindMailLocation

quick config

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/quick_configuration/#tldr-just-want-it-running

user databases..authenticating...

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/user_databases_userdb/#authentication-user-database

user_override

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/passwd/#authentication-passwd

maildir configuration

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/Maildir/

nckx advice to me:

hey....so I'm running a local dovecot server...I've got it pointed to my local maildir at ~/.mail/dismail/ Dovecot is running, and I can connect and login as my user "joshua"...but my email address is "jbranso"...do I need to try logging in as "jbranso"? [12:42] to view my emails?

jab: You can configure Dovecot any which way you want, you just have to keep the mapping straight. See (at least) auth_username_format, auth_default_realm. [12:58]

My current thoughts:

Hey dovecot people! I'm trying to set up a locally running dovecot server for Emacs! I've got isync delivering email to ~/.mail/dismail.de/ ...my email address is jbranso@dismail.de... [14:11] I log into dovecot via my system user joshua... I don't think that dovecot realizes that when I log in as joshua, I'd like to see the emails from jbranso@dismail.de... I suppose that I need to tweak that somehow... I suppose that the easiest thing to do, is to set up a username and password for "jbranso@dismail.de"... [14:13] I can either make a system user for that, or use one of the other password mechanisms for dovecot. I suppose I will try that other option. Thanks for letting me think out loud! it looks like I may want to use override_fields [14:16]

dovecot logging:

https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/logging/