Hi all

I'm trying to setup a dovecot proxy through and LDAP server.

I'm already using Perdition and it works very well but I would like to setup dovecot proxy for managesieve capabilities (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ManageSieve?highlight=(sieve)|(proxy)#Proxy)

The version of dovecot is 1.1.16 but I can't understand how to setup dovecot correctly.

This is my dovecot.conf:

protocols = pop3 imap

disable_plaintext_auth = no

auth_debug_passwords=yes

auth_verbose=yes

syslog_facility = mail

ssl_disable = yes

login_process_per_connection = no

login_processes_count = 3

auth default {

mechanisms = plain

userdb static {

args = static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/dev/null

}

passdb ldap {

args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf

}

user = root

}

And the dovecot-ldap.conf

hosts = first second third

auth_bind = yes

auth_bind_userdn = uid=%u,ou=People,dc=unisa,dc=it

ldap_version = 3

deref = never

base = uid=%n, ou=people, dc=unisa,dc=it

pass_attrs = uid=user, userPassword=password, =proxy=1, mailHost=host, =nologin=1, =nodelay=1

After a telnet on localhost 143 I receive a logout error. In the log I find:

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=imap secured lip=127.0.0.1 rip=127.0.0.1 lport=9143 rport=52316 resp=AGFzcGFyAFNvZm9yaW50

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: auth(default): client out: OK 1 user=XXXXXX

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: auth(default): master in: REQUEST 1 10541 1

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER 1 XXXXXX static uid=5000 gid=5000 home=/dev/null

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: pid=10541

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<XXXXXX>, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: IMAP(XXXXXX): mail_location not set and autodetection failed: Mail storage autodetection failed with home=/dev/null

Jun 17 10:14:17 server-proxy dovecot: Fatal: IMAP(XXXXXX): Namespace initialization failed

The important elements into the ldap entry of user XXXXXX are:

dn: uid= XXXXXX,ou=people,dc=unisa,dc=it

uid: XXXXXX

userPassword: SomethingToMatch

mailHost: 10.10.10.1

Could you guide me to resolve the issue?

Thanks a lot

Alfonso