On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:25:30 -03 Jona Joachim wrote: > On 2019-12-31, Roderick <[email protected]> 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?! > > > >> Can I remedy this (then: how?) or should I go on to ignore this warning? > > > > Perhaps configuring fetchmail? > > Maybe the best approach would be to configure fetchmail to forward mail > to the Dovecot LDA, for example over LMTP. This way only Dovecot ever > writes to the mailbox and you have the added benefit of using additional > features such as sieve and indexed mailboxes. > > Best regards, > Jona
This didn't occur to me. Another sign that I didn't get the whole picture. Will try to set this up after I got my system users versa virtual users approach correctly. Enfin it *was* useful to mention fetchmail. Thank you Jona! -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
