Re: Could not override "mail_location" with "userdb_mail" statment in "/etc/passwd"

You need to use passwd-file driver. I would recommend adding secondary userdb for overrides in a separate file instead of modifying /etc/passwd.

userdb { driver = passwd result_success = continue-ok }

userdb { driver = passwd-file args = /etc/dovecot/overrides }

and put in overrides

testm2m_mydomain.tld:::::::userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir

Hi Aki,

Thanks for your answer !

I've just gived a try and it works partially :

• the "userdb_mail=maildir:~/Maildir" is well taken into account for my user in "/etc/dovecot/overrides" (testm2m_mydomain.tld)

BUT

• all other accounts (located in "/etc/passwd" and not in "/etc/dovecot/overrides") could not connect anymore to the Dovecot server (POP/IMAP...). I got this kind of message in mail mail.log :

8<------------------------------ Feb 13 21:58:14 mail dovecot: imap: Error: Authenticated user not found from userdb, auth lookup id=2769158145 (client-pid=27095 client-id=1) Feb 13 21:58:14 mail dovecot: imap-login: Internal login failure (pid=27095 id=1) (internal failure, 1 successful auths): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=x.x.x.x, lip=y.y.y.y, mpid=27096, secured, session=<N2VZZ4v0oNABJ3LB> 8<------------------------------

Any idea ?

Thanks for your help !

/Xavier