Postfix configured - now how to read and send emails of virtual users?

[rkoziol7]

Hi all,

I have just configured postfix as "separate domains, non-UNIX accounts" according to postfix.org's readme.

I can see that test e-mails sent to my VIRTUAL account (let it be user1<at>mydomain.com) appear in the correct destination dir (/var/spool/mail/virtual/mydomaincom/new). I did also some telnet tests and was able to send mail from account user1<at>mydomain.com successfully.

Now I would like to read mails I have received. With a mail text client like alpine. I can see some configuration options in Alpine:

Personal Name
User Domain
SMTP Server (for sending)
NNTP Server (for news)
Inbox Path

and some other but when I set Personal name as user1 and User Domain as mydomain.com and Inbox Path as /var/spool/mail/virtual/mydomaincom I get an error:

Can't open (/var/spool/mail/virtual/mydomaincom) invalid remote specification

Note that user1<at>mydomain.com UNIX account does not exist - it is only a VIRTUAL user of postfix.

Could anyone tell me where could I look further? I can not find the answer anywhere...

Best Regards
Rob

[nplusplus]

I believe you are going to need to configure another external program for Postfix to be able to handoff the messages for storage. I could be wrong, but I believe a mail spool does not store messages in a format sufficient for most (maybe any) mail clients to read them. I believe it is only a temporary storage location for Postfix before it hands it off to something else, either a program that stores the messages in an appropriate format, or another Postfix process to send the messages elsewhere.

[rkoziol7]

But how? That's the question... What is that's program name?

[nplusplus]

Aaaah, okay.

You should probably start here: Postfix Add-on Software.

On that page, you will find links to what I have come across as the most common POP/IMAP servers that run with Postfix.
1) Dovecot - Dovecot
2) Cyrus - Project Cyrus
3) Courier - The Courier IMAP server

Of course, you will need to read the relevant section on this page: Postfix Howtos and FAQs.

Finally, some of the systems listed under web mail on the addons page provide a web interface to email along with POP and IMAP access.

Hope that helps.

[rkoziol7]

"squirrelmail" was the answer Thank you very much!