[Dovecot] Change mail_location for one user?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Scott Galambos wrote:

> Testing any given user gives:
> $: dovecot user sarah
> field   value
> uid     1478
> gid     116
> home    /home/sarah
> mail    mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/sarah
> system_groups_user      sarah
>
> What would I have to do to make only sarah's mail_location ~/Maildir now?  My 
> userdb is:
> $: doveconf -n userdb
> userdb {
>  driver = passwd
> }
>
> I tried following the wiki's but its confusing.  Thanks for any help or tips.

you need to pass "Extra Fields" to Dovecot, see last example in:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields

"passwd-file" is similiar to "passwd", but I don't know, if you break 
something (outside Dovecot), if you add the last field to /etc/passwd.

Because Dovecot supports multiple userdb's, you could add a passwd-file 
userdb _before_ passwd userdb, copy the line of sarah from /etc/passwd 
into that new file and add the extra fields there. See 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile

userdb {
 	driver = passwd-file
 	args = username_format=%n /etc/dovecot/imap.passwd
}
userdb {
 	driver = passwd
}

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Steffen Kaiser
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