[Dovecot] Samba AD and Dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:36 AM, Trever L. Adams wrote:

> I haven't seen the answer to this, maybe I am just using the wrong
> searches. I have two queries related to this:
>
> 1) I have seen how to configure for LDAP and Kerberos. AD uses both
> together. All user information is in AD/LDAP and authentication is
> AD/Kerberos. How can I configure Dovecot to use both appropriately?

You could forget about the Kerberos part and just use AD as an LDAP  
server.

> 2) I can cause Samba to create certain directories on login, etc.
> However, I am needing to do this for Dovecot (and Postfix using  
> Dovecot
> deliver). I would prefer to use Dovecot functionality for this, not
> Samba.This is not the autocreate folder/subscribe stuff, at least I
> think not. For example if I have a directory /var/mail/domain/user.  
> Can
> I have Dovecot auto create (with proper permissions) the domain/user
> part? These would be used for maildir.

If you're using the same UNIX UID for all users, there's really  
nothing you need to do. Dovecot tries to create missing directories  
automatically.