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 "[email protected]" (with POP3) could not retrieve email sent to [email protected] FWIW, no Dovecot user has a Unix account. -- Cheers, Phil
