On 2019-12-31, Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my >> local network. >> It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...] >> user username1@foodomain.local.fantasea mailbox is owned by vmail [...] >> Obviously dovecot has other ideas about security than OpenBSD. > > Is dovecot or fetchmail who create the mailboxes?! > >> Can I remedy this (then: how?) or should I go on to ignore this warning? > > Perhaps configuring fetchmail?
Maybe the best approach would be to configure fetchmail to forward mail to the Dovecot LDA, for example over LMTP. This way only Dovecot ever writes to the mailbox and you have the added benefit of using additional features such as sieve and indexed mailboxes. Best regards, Jona
