Re: [Dovecot] User-specific mail_location using passwd database

Maxime Brugidou wrote:

Can you do this with /etc/passwd ?

I tried to put a line like this :

pseudo:x:1010:100:My Name,,,:/home/pseudo:/bin/zsh:userdb_mail=mbox:~/mail

But it doesn't work : I cannot even login using that line (the shell is considered to be /bin/zsh:userdb_mail=mbox:~/mail)

I already searched the wiki, and didn't find my answer. I apologize if I am mistaken and do it wrong, but please explain me how to do this.

Max

You cannot do that with the /etc/passwd, only with a passwd-file. Not very useful if you are using them as actual system users.

What you probably need to do is override the mail_executable setting to point to a script. See the last section in http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation

~Matt