[Dovecot] lda and home directory

[Bob Miller]

Hi Rick,

> I had/have the same issue.   In Dovecot 1.x I was able to use LDA with
> vpopmail and only environment variables to deliver to a home directory.  I
> was never able to get it to work with Dovecot 2.x - don't know if using
> environment variables is depricated, but I ended up having to setup an auth
> server to use lda with qmail/vpopmail.  :(

My hosting server uses vpopmail and lda, and I don't recall having to do
that.  If you want to compare configs, let me know.  

In this case, I authenticate against samba active directory, and a
(seemingly) small config change there led me on an epic quest of
configuration updates through the whole email system until I got stuck
in this lda box that didn't even have a problem in it.  sigh.  I was
doing so well....

But you showed me the outside of the box:

> For your environment variable questions, those come from Qmail.  See:
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#environment-variables

It's stunningly obvious now that you point it out.  Soooo obvious, in
fact, I probably would have been weeks figuring it out.  Thank you so
much...

change my defaultdelivery to:

|HOME=/home/mail/$LOCAL /var/qmail/bin/preline
-f /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda

and lda looks for the correct directory again.

I guess environment variables are not deprecated, presumably that's good
news?