I have my own custom schema for email that I have been using for
years with courier_imap and exim. I am experimenting with dovecot
and trying to set up my conf so that it logs in using the ldap database.

In the dovecot-ldap.conf there is a section

# Filter for user lookup. Some variables can be used (see # http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables for full list): # %u - username # %n - user part in user@domain, same as %u if there's no domain # %d - domain part in user@domain, empty if user there's no domain #user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))

In order to match my scheme I changed it to

user_filter = (&(objectClass=shireNetEmailaccount) (shireNetEmailAddress=%u))

This should match my courier setup of

##NAME: LDAP_MAIL:0 # # Here's the field on which we query

#LDAP_MAIL mail

LDAP_MAIL shireNetEmailAddress

Anyway, it appears from the logs that my user_filter is being ignored
as I get the following in the log

dovecot: Apr 26 11:24:35 Info: auth(default): ldap(chad@rkba.com, 67.171.127.191): base=dc=shire, dc=net scope=subtree filter=(& (objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=chad@rkba.com))
fields=shireNetUserPassword

which shows the original default user_filter

What do I need to do to have it use the one I give in the dovecat- ldap.conf and not the default?

The dovecot-ldap.conf is being used as it is going against my ldap
server

thanks Chad

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net