Re: New to dovecot admin, question about using LDAP for user-specific values

On 13 Sep 2019, at 11:51, Jean-Daniel Dupas jddupas@xooloo.com wrote:

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Le 13 sept. 2019 à 09:29, Gerben Wierda via dovecot mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> a écrit :

Nobody?

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On 10 Sep 2019, at 11:58, Gerben Wierda via dovecot mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:

I am new to dovecot administration. I’ve read the Wiki but that hasn’t given me the understanding I need.

When I query my LDAP (on macOS) on a value for user ‘gerben’, I can get that:

dumbledore:~ gerben$ dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read /users/gerben GeneratedUID GeneratedUID: 780D870E-6B00-478E-AB70-3D3307215A82

I would like to use that value in dovecot settings, e.g. something like

user_attrs =
=mail=maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%{ldap:GeneratedUID} maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%%7Bldap:GeneratedUID%7D

Is this possible and if so what do I exactly need to do to get this working?

As the answer is in the question, it is hard to give you any hint about what should be done.

What is wrong with

user_attrs =
=mail=maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%{ldap:GeneratedUID} maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%25%7Bldap:GeneratedUID%7D

Did you try it ? Have you got any issue with it ?

I haven’t tried anything yet as I am trying to learn before I do anything (and trial and error is a very slow method), but it seems to me that just that line cannot be enough. Because how does “ldap:” know to go looking in the LDAP structure at "/Users/<username>/“ in the LDAP “/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1”? Somehow I shall have to tell dovecot that.

But if trial and error is the only way, I’ll have to try.

G