On 19.10.2012, at 23.43, E.B. wrote:
I'm having some problems getting LDA to work without userdb lookups and have a few related questions. This system has all users in MySQL, each user with unique UID/GID, no local users at all.
Installation is from apt-get.
- If LDA is invoked without lookups, is it correct to assume that the "service auth" and "service auth-worker" can be completely removed from dovecot master configuration? (I have tried commenting them out and logging into IMAP, which seems to work, not sure if anyone else needs the auth service)
If you remove them the defaults are simply used.
- If LDA is invoked without lookups, will I be unable to use Dovecot quota plugin? Does it need to have a user lookup to get quota info? (haven't added quota support, need to take this one step at a time)
You can give quota info also via either environment variables or via -o plugin/quota_rule=xx parameter.
- The interesting part -- I am invoking LDA from Maildrop. See: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/65473 So when invoked, Maildrop has already dropped to the destination UID/GID and the needed paths are available in the environment. However, using as many permutations of calling LDA as I can think of (based on http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA ), I always get this:
(command line usage error. Command output: lda: Fatal: Couldn't lookup our username (uid=2500) )
Set USER environment.
3.5) Related question, my users have separate homedir and maildir, both paths are looked up by Maildrop. I think I need to call LDA with "HOME=$DEFAULT dovecot-lda -f $FROM". Is this correct?
As long as the home and mail directories point to the same ones as they are when logging in via IMAP/POP3.