On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 09:47:03 -03 Roderick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > I'm using an IMAP mailserver with dovecot which is entirely limited to my > > local network. > > It pulls my external mail with fetchmail. [...] > > user [email protected] mailbox is owned by vmail [...] > > Obviously dovecot has other ideas about security than OpenBSD. > > Is dovecot or fetchmail who create the mailboxes?! fetchmail doesn't configure anything, especially not mailboxes. I regret having mentioned fetchmail. It happens as part of setting up dovecot with virtual users. > > > Can I remedy this (then: how?) or should I go on to ignore this warning? > > Perhaps configuring fetchmail? > > Rod. Here is an example of setting up dovecot: https://www.tumfatig.net/20150620/opensmtpd-and-dovecot-on-openbsd-5-7/ Of course this has to be adopted with care (5.7. hint hint)
Thanks for considering my quest -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
