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Understand Postfix Account Types

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*  * postfix/vmailbox - maps virtual non-unix users to the path of their virtual mailbox * dovecot/virtualpasswd - by any naming convention, this represents the file that contains all virtual users and their passwords.  Often the name of the virtual user file is based on the domain of the virtual user's login, /etc/auth/yourdomain.com/passwdThere may also be tables for other things such as a table for the domains hosted on the system if they are not specified directly within one of the postfix configuration files.  See [[Dovecot and Postfix Hybrid Authentication Example]] for a list of tables with example entries in the correct format.== final destination ==On a modern mail server using a secure model, unix accounts on the system may not be the final destination for Internet email.  If the system is a mail server only, there may be only a small handful of actual unix accounts.  Virtual users all have a username which includes the domain name of their primary email address.  They are not limited to receiving only mail from the domain in their username, however, it is considered the name of their mailbox, the final destination for Internet mail.
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