[Dovecot] FreeBSD, Postfix, Cyrus SASL, Dovecot IMAP, SquirrelMail, Active Directory

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 11:43 -0800, Phil Anslemo wrote:
> Here's an update to my configuration.  I'm able to use Cyrus SASL to enable SMTP AUTH in PostFix, validate user's mail addresses in Active Directory, and store mail in maildir on FreeBSD.  I am currently able to authenticate AD users with Dovecot and LDAP, but I'm getting the following error in the log:
> 
> Error: IMAP(user at domain): Ambiguous mail location setting, don't know what to do with it: user at domain (try prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
> Error: IMAP(user at doman): Failed to create storage data: user at domain.
> Error: child xxxxx (imap) returned error 89
> 
> I double-checked dovecot.conf, and the mail_location setting is "mail_location = maildir:/usr/data/vmail/%u".
> 
> I'm not sure what could be happening, but I'm thinking this is the last thing I need to get my configuration to work.

If it's not mail_location, then your userdb is returning user at domain as
"mail". So you user userdb ldap? Does your user_attrs contain
something=mail?


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