Re: [Dovecot] invoking LDA in .forward

2008-03-10 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:05 +0100, Jeremie Bouttier wrote: > Timo Sirainen a écrit : > > How about just setting /var/mail 01777? > > I believe this allows any user to create /var/mail/anotheruser if it > does not exist yet. We have several hundred accounts and new ones > regularly created, so th

Re: [Dovecot] invoking LDA in .forward

2008-03-10 Thread Jeremie Bouttier
Timo Sirainen a écrit : How about just setting /var/mail 01777? I believe this allows any user to create /var/mail/anotheruser if it does not exist yet. We have several hundred accounts and new ones regularly created, so this is a risk (that could perhaps be mitigated by creating the inbox

Re: [Dovecot] invoking LDA in .forward

2008-03-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 15:42 +0100, Jeremie Bouttier wrote: > For people using mostly remote MUAs, it might be interesting to use > Dovecot's LDA. I read on http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA that this is > possible using .forward files, however this fails on our system with : > file_lock_dotlock() fail

[Dovecot] invoking LDA in .forward

2008-03-08 Thread Jeremie Bouttier
Hi, We're running a Debian server with system users where the mail is by default delivered by postfix and procmail, before being served by Dovecot (mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u) or read by local MUAs, depending on users' preferences. For people using mostly remote MUAs, i