[Dovecot] Problem using LDAP generating Userhome

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 15:03 +0100, Thorsten Habich wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm trying to let dovecot generate the userhome directory dynamicly via 
> user_attr.
> If "uid" is returned from LDAP before "mail" everything is fine, but if 
> "mail" is delivered
> before "uid" the localpart of the mailaddress is used in home path.
> 
> e.g.:
> Mail: testuser at domain.de
> UID : test123
> 
> sometimes home is /mail/store/testuser and sometimes /mail/store/test123 
> depending
> on the order the ldap server replies.

I don't think there's a good way to solve this currently.

> pass_attrs = 
> uid=user,userPassword=password,mailMessageStore=home=%$/telefonica.de/%Ln,mailFilterStore=sieve_dir=%$/telefonica.de/%Ln

Do mailMessageStore and mailFilterStore return different directories? If
not, maybe you could just put those settings into plugin {} section.
Then the %Ln is guaranteed to be what you want.

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