[Dovecot] deliver & override homedir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 2 20:57:09 EEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 14:50 +0200, arne van theemsche wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We're in the phase of converting our existing unix-based users to 
> virtual users.
> 
> Goal is to make mail-spool totaly independent of home-spool. For that 
> reason, NO files can be written to home.
> I've solved the problem for all files, except for .dovecot.lda-dupes.

You should still have home directory, but I guess you could call it
"virtual home".

> I thought being clever and override in the userdb passwd following
> 
> args = home=/var/spool/mail/%1n/%2n/%n
> 
> but deliver totaly ignores that.

What Dovecot version do you use? The overriding works only with v1.1.

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