[Dovecot] Active Directory : searches in root tree

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 01:48 -0700, nicolasfo wrote:
> base            	= ou=some_ou,dc=domain,dc=lan
..
> With this configuration file, it works. BUT :
> To allow Dovecot to find users in my AD database, I must specify an OU in
> "base". If I only set "dc=domain,dc=lan" the research doesn't work. It seems
> that Dovecot is not capable to make a research without an OU specified in
> base.
> Am I wrong ?

The base parameter is simply passed to OpenLDAP library. There's no
requirement from Dovecot's side to have OU. But what might be possible
is that you may need to change other settings to make it work. I'm not
expert with LDAP and especially not with AD though.