On Aug 1, 2008, at 1:39 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:
| mailboxes=
printf "1 list "" *\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap | perl magicOk, looks easy. But I can't find information anywhere on how to
specify the user. I tried with 'USER=username' in front of the dovecot call, and
dovecot then said 'Logged in as username' instead of 'Logged in as root',
but a list command doesn't show the mailboxes, so I think it's not accessing
the maildir of that user. I guess it's because the users are not system users, and dovecot
needs to retrieve info from the LDAP directory first. But how do I tell it to
do that?
You can't do that with --exec-mail. It expects to be running using the
correct UID, GID, $USER and $HOME.
Logging in via netcat / telnet works, but then I don't know how to
proceed...
With v1.2 code you could use the same printf .. | nc localhost 143,
but unfortunately this doesn't work with older versions since the
input buffer is reset after login.