Postfixadmin Installer for Wheezy

Debian Wheezy ships with Dovecot 2.x which has a different config layout to the 1.x verion in Lenny and Squeeze. In response, I’ve created a wheezy branch of postfixadmin-installer (there’s an issue for it, too) which configures Dovecot 2.x and it’s actually been a really easy switch.

In much the same way as the current version generally does away with the heavily commented documentation masquerading as a config file, this one simply moves /etc/dovecot out of the way and writes two files into it – dovecot.conf and dovecot-sql.conf (which are the same as for 1.x). This causes a pretty hilarious reduction in filesize, too:

root@pfa:~# find /etc/dovecot/ -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -l
48
root@pfa:~# find /etc/dovecot_2013-01-29/ -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -l
1772
root@pfa:~#

Anyway, with some incredibly limited testing, and assuming you have already installed dovecot, this seems to work. If you want to test it (please!), enable Wheezy backports in Squeeze and then:

apt-get install libwww-perl mysql-server postfix
apt-get -t squeeze-backports install dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d
wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/BigRedS/postfixadmin-installer/wheezy/postfixadmin-installer
perl ./postfixadmin-installer

And, finally, here’s that working config I’m using, in case that’s what you’re after:
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

protocols = imap pop3
log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S "
mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n
mail_privileged_group = vmail
# This should match that of the owner of the /var/lib/vmail hierarchy, and
# be the same as the one postfix uses.
first_valid_uid = 999
# Allow people to use plaintext auth even when TLS/SSL is available (you
# might not want this but it is handy when testing):
disable_plaintext_auth = no
# Uncomment this to get nice and verbose messages about authentication
# problems:
# auth_debug=yes

ssl = no

protocol imap {
}

protocol pop3 {
  pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
}

# 'plain' here doesn't override the disble_plaintext_auth_default of 'yes'.
# you should add any other auth mechanisms you want
#auth_mechanisms = plain
userdb {
  driver = sql
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
}
passdb {
  driver = sql
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
}

service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
    mode = 0660
    # yes, 'postfix' (or the user that owns the above socket file), not vmail
    user = postfix
    group = postfix
  }
}

/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf

connect = host=localhost dbname=vmail user=vmail password=1lgI2ehK6aEqytjkeDFT4Z7Pq
driver = mysql
default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT
password_query = SELECT username AS user,password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1'
user_query = SELECT maildir, 999 AS uid, 122 AS gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active='1'