Monday, February 21, 2022, 10:59:10 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
> Dovecot comes into play only when user logs in to IMAP account. It keeps its > own mapping between login names (which do not need to be email addresses, > they can be just any names) and mailboxes corresponding to these users. > User logs in using some name and gets access to a particular mailbox. > That's all what Dovecot does. This is the thing that I could not figure out from the Dovecot documentation - mapping between Dovecot login names and mailboxes. That's why I went down the alias path in postfix. It seemed to me that Dovecot login names and email addresses had to match. That is, user logging in from an MUA as "fred@my.domain" (with POP3) could not retrieve email sent to mb123456@my.domain FWIW, no Dovecot user has a Unix account. -- Cheers, Phil
