i am working on a new production mailserver using smtpd for an mta and
dovecot for serving mail. i have run into a problem where i would like
to use the same authentication mechanism for smtpd and dovecot so there
is only one password database to maintain.
as best i can tell i need to use system accounts and virtual user maps
to get mail to dump into separate directories. the caveat is getting
either dovecot to understand the virtual user mapping to system accounts
or smtpd to do smtp authentication through dovecot. i would rather use
bsdauth than have dovecot handle authentication.
i currently have smtpd setup and delivering mail fine with the following
config
ext_if = "re0"
listen on lo0
listen on $ext_if tls enable auth
map "aliases" { source db "/etc/mail/aliases.db" }
map "virtual" { source db "/etc/mail/virtual.db" }
accept for local alias aliases deliver to mbox
accept from all for virtual "virtual" deliver to maildir "/var/vmail/%d/%a"
accept for all relay
with the virtual map specified like so
us...@domain1.com: user1_dom1
...
us...@domain1.com: userN_dom1
where i have added users user1_dom1 through userN_dom1 with the false
shell to the system. all works fine with the mail delivery and relay.
any insight into how i can get dovecot or smtpd to do what i want would
be appreciated.
cheers,
jake
