[Samba] Postfix and Samba best practice

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Bailey
Hi, We have a server which is going to be a Samba file server and a Postfix server where the users will access their mail over IMAP. We normally prefer to use Maildir storage as it seems to be recommended over mailbox - for me, for example, I am subscribed to a dozen or so lists and have

Re: [Samba] Postfix and Samba best practice

2009-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
My question is this: Is it better to store the mail somewhere else entirely - i.e. /var/mail/users or something or a new home directory (/home/mailstorage) or something? In which case how best to set up permissions? It seems that when the mail is stored it gets the username as the

Re: [Samba] Postfix and Samba best practice

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Bailey
Or should I try to share out a different directory via Samba. I.e. Leave the mail in /home/username/.Maildir and get Samba to share out /home/username/samba for example? You can also continue your current setup and just use Samba's veto files directive in the home directory share to

[Samba] Postfix and Samba best practice

2009-03-15 Thread Kevin Bailey
Hi, We have a server which is going to be a Samba file server and a Postfix server where the users will access their mail over IMAP. We normally prefer to use Maildir storage as it seems to be recommended over mailbox - for me, for example, I am subscribed to a dozen or so lists and have