Re: [Dovecot] Maildir/mbox on a per-user basis

30 Nov 2004 · _); $syspassline=$_


      
Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi [11-28-2004 22:05]:

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On 20.11.2004, at 00:15, Jon Nathan wrote:
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default_mail_env can be overridden in userdb for each user. This works
with userdbs supporting the "mail" attribute (eg. passwd-file, SQL,
LDAP).
How exactly does one do this for passwd-file?
user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):flags:mail
It's the mail part there.
Thanks for your help, Timo.  I now have this working.  In case this is
helpful to anyone, the below script generates a passwd-file from the
system passwd/shadow file (this was on Solaris).  It defaults users to
mbox, but assigns them to Maildir if their name is in a file of
maildir users.  Fairly simplistic, but it does the job for me.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# generates a passwd-file format file for dovecot imapd.
# this allows users to choose either maildir or mbox
# defaults to mbox; maildir users go into $maildirusers
# passwd-file format:
# user:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):flags:mail
# files
$syspass="/etc/passwd";
$sysshad="/etc/shadow";
$dovecotpass="/usr/local/etc/dovecot.passwd";
$maildirusers="/usr/local/etc/dovecot.maildirusers";
umask 0077;
if(-f $dovecotpass){
system("rm $dovecotpass"); # start fresh
}
open(SYSPASS,"<$syspass")||die("Can't open system passwd file $!\n");
while(<SYSPASS>){
chomp($_);
$syspassline=$_;
($user,$pass,$uid,$gid,$gecos,$home,$shell) = split(/:/,$syspassline);
if($uid>100){    # don't run on system accounts
$sysshadline=grep '^$user:' $sysshad;
($shaduser,$shadpass)=split(/:/,$sysshadline,3);
$maildiruser=`grep '^$user\$' $maildirusers`;
$flags=""; # for passwd-file format
open(OUT,">>$dovecotpass");
if($maildiruser){
  $mailbox="maildir:/home/$user/Maildir";
}else{
  $mailbox="mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/home/$user/mail/inbox";
}
print OUT "$user:$shadpass:$uid:$gid:$gecos:$home:$shell:$flags:$mailbox\n";
close(OUT);
}
}
close(SYSPASS);
#FIN
-Jon
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Jon Nathan
jon@rupture.net