[Dovecot] Initial support for shared mailboxes

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Sep 30 18:55:15 EEST 2008


On Sep 30, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:

>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:
>>
>>>>> Is there a %%h, too?  So that, if we have
>>>>>
>>>>> mail_location = maildir:~
>>>> ..
>>>>> Another (more specific) problem in this context: Is is it possible
>>>>> to
>>>>> determine a users home calling an external program like
>>>>> checkpassword?
>>>>> This would be needed in an setup, where the users $HOME is set  
>>>>> by an
>>>>> checkpassword program to an compute value, to access another users
>>>>> mailbox.
>>>>
>>>> This would require doing a userdb lookup from dovecot-auth the same
>>>> way
>>>> as deliver or expire-tool does it.
>>>
>>> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "this" here, are you referring  
>>> to
>>> the proposed `%%h' variable, too or only to my more specific problem
>>> with computer HOME paths?
>>
>> I think it's the same thing.
>
> Is it?  I might be wrong, but i thought for configurations where  
> userdb
> doesn't depend on the passdb implementing %%h as the home directory of
> user %%u should be straight forward.  Or am I missing something?

I guess I just misunderstood what you meant. All I meant was that %%h  
expansion would always have to be done using a userdb lookup.
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