Hi,
I was face with a similar problem a couple of month ago. If I recall correctly, the system needed the "home" variable but it was empty because it could not be retrieved in the Actuve Directory tree.
Here is what I did (adapted to your setup..... I think)
In my ldap setup I set pass_attrs = mail=userdb_home
In the main conf file I did
mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/special.shAnd in "special.sh" I put
#!/bin/sh
myuser=`echo $HOME|sed s/@.*$//`
domain=`echo $HOME|sed s/^.*@//`
export USER=$HOME
export HOME=/var/mail/${domain}/${myuser}
export MAIL="maildir:${HOME}"
exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imapVoila!
Make sure that special.sh is where "mail_executable" says it is.... And don't forget to chmod a+x it.
Hope this helps François
On Thursday 06 September 2007 06:20, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
I'm a bit unclear on these - give me a moment to ramble on. I should mention I'm using version 1.0.3, my primary backend is LDAP, and I do NOT want to store user mail folders in my LDAP directory.
I currently have the following:
default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } # Instructions for deliver state a userdb is still required if using prefetch userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { }
My dovecot-ldap.conf is pretty simple - the trimmed version is: hosts = localhost auth_bind = no user_attrs = %d/%n=mail user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = (&(userPassword=password)(mail=%u)) user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 8
I recognize that the pass_attrs is incorrect for a prefetch config - but I couldn't get it to work. My mail folder structure is /var/mail/domain/username.
If, under 1.0.3, I can't use the %d/%n variables to build the user/home/mail parameters in the LDAP config, can I do it in the configuration stanza? Something like:
passdb ldap{ args = home=%dn/%n mail=%d/%n /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf }