Hello Kirill,
Thank you for your reply. I understand that the relevancy of mentioning NetBSD may have been irrelevant, but many people are using some variety of GNU/Linux and a lot of things change between the two.
As far as letting Dovecot handle mailbox delivery, I'm not opposed and also having to familiarize myself with Dovecot's options. I was focused first on getting Exim working 100% then tweaking my config to include Dovecot.
I am able to understand parts of the config file but sometimes it can be overwhelming learning different syntaxes, and not all options are immediately apparent especially if the majority of documentation by third parties (e.g. Debian users, 60% of guides out there are referencing a custom Debian patched version) is irrelevant and you yourself aren't familiar with the jargon and terms being used to be able to search and find the answer yourself. I appreciate that in some ways my questions are probably obvious, but I did neither blindly apply config options nor just post here with zero research.
Thanks for the configuration. I'll have to modify it after referencing the netbsd documentation out there for Dovecot.
I'll be in touch if I have any more issues, thank you all.
On Feb 21, 2024, 3:38 PM, at 3:38 PM, Kirill Miazine via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
>Hi there
>
>• Kazuo Kuroi via Exim-users [2024-02-20 15:30]:
>> Hello exim-users,
>>
>> I am currently trying to set up an Exim mail server with Dovecot as
>my local IMAP system. Here is some info relevant to my setup:
>>
>> Exim version is 4.97. built using pkgsrc.
>
>Eh, I think the subject of the message is not really describing for the
>
>issue you're having, as there's nothing wrong with Exim on NetBSD.
>
>> The main issue I'm having is setting up Exim for virtual users and to
>set up mailboxes in a normal way.
>
>You say that you're using Dovecot -- then why not use Dovecot's LDA --
>or better LMTP and let Dovecot handle the delivery to the Maildirs, and
>
>also take care of using proper UID, Sieve filtering and whatnot?
>
>> Ideally I would like Exim to use /var/email/user@domain with a
>standard maildir directory tree. I am not sure how to accomplish this
>according to Exim documentation, which is extensive but also a bit
>overwhelming as someone who used Exim on Debian for years (which uses
>entirely different setups).
>
>What Debian does is beyond my comprehension.
>
>I suggest you read
>https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_default_configuration_file.html,
>
>which goes through default configuration files and talks about various
>parts of it.
>
>> Once I fixed the directory issue I can probably figure out how to set
>up virtual users and share that info between Exim and Dovecot. On
>Dovecot I can do this by using the %u variable. What would be the
>appropriate variable for here? I tried using a few from the manual but
>I was just blindly stabbing in the dark.
>
>Here you can have my own router and transport for Dovecot delivery.
>Don't blindly copy, but try to understand what every options does.
>
>dovecot:
> driver = accept
> address_data = ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}lsearch{MAIL_PASSWD_MAP
>{$value}fail}
> local_part_suffix = +*
> local_part_suffix_optional
> transport = dovecot_lmtp
>
>dovecot_lmtp:
> driver = lmtp
> socket = /var/dovecot/lmtp
> rcpt_include_affixes
>
>MAIL_PASSWD_MAP is a macro which expands to a file which also Dovecot
>uses:
>
>userdb {
> driver = passwd-file
> args = /local/db/dovecot-passwd/map
>}
>
>The file format is described in
>https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/passwd_file/#authentication-passwd-file
>
>> The other thing I would like to accomplish is having an
>/etc/localdomains and /etc/remotedomains file to hold what domains are
>accepted locally and not. I don't suppose this is possible with current
>configurations? I have no idea how it's done on RHEL or Debian, it
>always came out of the box like that.
>
>Please read
>https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-how_exim_receives_and_delivers_mail.html
>
>and make sure you understand how delivery is done, especialy the role
>of
>routers, and how routers define which transport are responsible for
>doing the actual delivery (either locally or remotely).
>
>> There will probably be other problems that I have to discuss but I
>sincerely hope that I can get some help here. If I have omitted some
>crucial detail please let me know.
>>
>
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