[Dovecot] lda and mail_location

Mark Edwards mark at antsclimbtree.com
Thu Jun 28 23:10:00 EEST 2007


On Jun 28, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 12:52 -0700, Mark Edwards wrote:
>> One thing that still puzzles me is why userdb has to be set at all.
>> In my case its totally unnecessary as far as I can tell, yet I get
>> errors if I don't set it or set it to nothing.  I have it set to
>> return the home attribute right now, but that isn't used.
>
> It must return uid and gid.
>
> For v1.1 I'll add new global mail_uid and mail_gid settings. Then  
> if you
> use them userdb won't be needed.

I am using user_global_uid and user_global_gid, and so there is no  
reason for userdb to return uid and gid ini my case, in fact I have  
it set to return only home, and that's only to avoid the error.

--
Mark Edwards




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