On su, 2010-06-06 at 14:38 +0200, Javier de Miguel RodrÃguez wrote:
1) We are unable to make dbox work with quota, but we have noproblem with maildir. Quota is stored in a ldap attibute called "mailQuota"
I don't really recommend using dbox in v1.2. It has much better performance and stability in v2.0. Anyway, with dbox you'll have to use dict quota instead of maildir quota.
2) A user can be in different branches in the same time: forexample, a teacher called pepito should be in the uid=pepito,o=us.es,dc=us,dc=es branch but if that teacher is also a student should have another ldap entry uid=pepitosurname,o=us.es,dc=us,dc=es. Our identity management is the piece of software that "promotes" a user in that case. How should we use "mail_location" to addres this?
You mean both pepito@us.es and pepitosurname@alum.us.es (did you forget alum above?) should point to same mail directory? There would have to be some kind of a common identifier between them in LDAP.
4) Some users could have their mailboxes "disabled". We use thefollowing line: user_filter = (&(objectClass=inetorgperson)(uid=%n)(mailUserStatus=active)) but it does NOT work as expected. Any idea)
You should do it also for pass_filter. But other than that, I'd guess it should work.
6) I have read carefully perfomance in dovecot wiki. Can I usenoatime in /etc/fstab safely with dovecot?
Yes.
Any perfomance hint apart from we already have in our config files?
Wiki lists most of the things I can think of.
7) When we set vacation messages they work but we see this error inthe log: dovecot: deliver(jorgelp): file_dotlock_create(~/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory
Your userdb doesn't return a home directory for users. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
8) When a user log in she uses his username "mary" (without @us.esor @alum.us.es) . Our dovecot search in all the ldap tree until it finds that uid. But we would like to store in our mail_location /buzones/us.es or /buzones/alum.us.es. How can we accomplish this? We should use the "upper branch name" as part of the mail_location.
pass_attrs = .., someField=domain, ..
where someField contains the us.es or alum.us.es. If there's no such field, I guess there's no way to do it.
auth default_with_listener: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf auth default: mechanisms: plain login passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf
Don't add more than one auth block, now it's sometimes (more or less randomly) using dovecot-ldap-userdb.conf and other times dovecot-ldap.conf for userdb lookups.