Noel Butler a écrit :

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 18:09, denis wrote:

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/But the problem is that dovecot creates (when you log in for the first time) a directory in the form of the exact address. Here for example, /var/alternc/mail/d/denis@collectifs.net

And so all connections will be on an empty location.

How is it possible to resolve this?

As mail_location I have this "maildir:/var/alternc/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir" which is not really correct. /

Dovecot is doing what you have told it. %u is complete username

if you want name use %n ... and %d where (if) you want domain Bascially replace your %u with %n Thanks, it's working well with

mail_location = maildir:/var/alternc/mail/%1u/%n_%d/Maildir

But, for some users logging with name_domain the directory which is created is not correct and look like

/var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net_

Is it a way to transform a login with _ like denis_collectifs.net to denis@collectifs.net to have a the mail_location correct ?

Thanks Denis

Noel Butler a écrit :

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Thanks, it's working well with

mail_location = maildir:/var/alternc/mail/%1u/%n_%d/Maildir

But, for some users logging with name_domain the directory which is created is not correct and look like

/var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net_

I can't see how it's doing that, given you have told it where to put the underscore. Is there any reason you can't use /var/alternc/mail/collectifs.net/d/denis format? Do you need underscores?

Yes, because it comes from the hosting control/ panel Alternc http://www.alternc.org

I am trying to use dovecot in place of courrier /

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Is it a way to transform a login with _ like denis_collectifs.net to denis@collectifs.net to have a the mail_location correct ?

I can't recall if you mentioned earlier what MTA you are using, our setup uses postfix/dovecot/mysql How are you storing your users/auth ? Perhaps using my suggestion above will work better? just adjust your database query to match

In my /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf, i use user_query = SELECT path, 33 AS uid, uid AS gid FROM mail_users WHERE alias = '%u'

The user can be denis_collectifs.net or denis@collectifs.net and the path is always like this /var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net (the Maildir is created by an script)

If i set mail_location = maildir:/var/alternc/mail/%1u/%u/Maildir

The problem is that dovecot creates (when you log in for the first time) a directory in the form of the exact address. Here for example, /var/alternc/mail/d/denis@collectifs.net in place of using /var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net

If i set mail_location = maildir:/var/alternc/mail/%1u/%n_%d/Maildir

All is working well, except is use denis_collectifs as user because dovecot creates a directory /var/alternc/mail/d/denis_collectifs.net_

Maybe that the best way is to modify the user_query , something like REPLACE(alias,'@','_') but i don't now if it's possible.

Thanks Denis