Hi,

On Friday 07 September 2007 01:42, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

Thank you - I was thinking perhaps a wrapper script would be necessary.

You are welcome.

How do the multiple userdb/passdb sections work? Once a match is found, does processing stop? Or are multiple matches combined? Does the "userdb static" set defaults which could be used for the userdb ldap?

Not sure here. I only use Active Directory (i.e. LDAP) for authentication.

I remember trying, in vain, to use the static userdb, so I guess (and expected) the processing to stop on the first match. I am not sure how you would combine things with the "deny=yes" setting for example.

Cheers, François

François Wautier wrote:

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Hi,

I was face with a similar problem a couple of month ago. If I recall correctly, the system needed the "home" variable but it was empty because it could not be retrieved in the Actuve Directory tree.

Here is what I did (adapted to your setup..... I think)

In my ldap setup I set pass_attrs = mail=userdb_home

In the main conf file I did

mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/special.sh

And in "special.sh" I put

#!/bin/sh myuser=echo $HOME|sed s/@.*$// domain=echo $HOME|sed s/^.*@// export USER=$HOME export HOME=/var/mail/${domain}/${myuser} export MAIL="maildir:${HOME}" exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap

Voila!

Make sure that special.sh is where "mail_executable" says it is.... And don't forget to chmod a+x it.

Hope this helps François

On Thursday 06 September 2007 06:20, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

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I'm a bit unclear on these - give me a moment to ramble on. I should mention I'm using version 1.0.3, my primary backend is LDAP, and I do NOT want to store user mail folders in my LDAP directory.

I currently have the following:

default_mail_env = maildir:/var/mail/%d/%n passdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf }

Instructions for deliver state a userdb is still required if using

prefetch userdb ldap { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb prefetch { }

My dovecot-ldap.conf is pretty simple - the trimmed version is: hosts = localhost auth_bind = no user_attrs = %d/%n=mail user_filter = (mail=%u) pass_attrs = (&(userPassword=password)(mail=%u)) user_global_uid = 5000 user_global_gid = 8

I recognize that the pass_attrs is incorrect for a prefetch config - but I couldn't get it to work. My mail folder structure is /var/mail/domain/username.

If, under 1.0.3, I can't use the %d/%n variables to build the user/home/mail parameters in the LDAP config, can I do it in the configuration stanza? Something like:

passdb ldap{ args = home=%dn/%n mail=%d/%n /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf }