Headsup on feature removal

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 19/03/2020 13:24 Alessio Cecchi <alessio at skye.it> wrote:
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> Il 19/03/20 02:01, John Stoffel ha scritto:
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> > Alessio> ### user_query for vpopmail 
> > Alessio> user_query = SELECT pw_dir AS home, 89 AS uid, 89 AS gid,
> > Alessio> concat('*:backend=', pw_shell) AS quota_rule FROM vpopmail
> > Alessio> WHERE pw_name = '%n' AND pw_domain = '%d'
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> > Careful!  You need to explain that 89 is the UID and GID of the
> > vpopmail user account?  Or some other account?  I don't use either of
> > these auth methods, but this just struck me a a little magical.  
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> Hi John,
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> what you said is true but historically in vpopmail environments uid and gid are usually hardcoded at 89
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> Anyone can check their uid and gid with "id vpopmail" command from shell and update as necessary.
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> Alessio Cecchi

You can also replace 89 with 'vpopmail' and let dovecot resolve the number.

Aki