[Dovecot] separate mail_location for system and normal users
How to configure dovecot to use different default mail_location for system (uid<1_000) and normal users (uid>=1_000)?
I want to to use by default
- classic mailbox in standard location for system users
- maildir in $HOME subdirectory for normal users
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote:
How to configure dovecot to use different default mail_location for system (uid<1_000) and normal users (uid>=1_000)?
I want to to use by default
- classic mailbox in standard location for system users
- maildir in $HOME subdirectory for normal users
That depends :-)
If you have just one userdb, configure the default mail_location for most users and return a mail extra field for the other ones.
You use passwd? This probably will not work, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields about the syntax
You could probably copy the set of users, that requires extra fields, from your /etc/passwd to somewhere else, adding the extra field. Then configure the copy as userdb { driver passwd-file } _before_ the userdb { passwd }. That way, the entries in the passwd-file override the ones in /etc/passwd, because they are found first.
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On 10/28/2013 09:29 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote:
How to configure dovecot to use different default mail_location for system (uid<1_000) and normal users (uid>=1_000)?
I want to to use by default
- classic mailbox in standard location for system users
- maildir in $HOME subdirectory for normal users
That depends :-)
If you have just one userdb, configure the default mail_location for most users and return a mail extra field for the other ones.
You use passwd? This probably will not work, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields about the syntax
You could probably copy the set of users, that requires extra fields, from your /etc/passwd to somewhere else, adding the extra field. Then configure the copy as userdb { driver passwd-file } _before_ the userdb { passwd }. That way, the entries in the passwd-file override the ones in /etc/passwd, because they are found first.
I have used userdb/passwd fix for a system with a few "real user mailboxes". I wanted something better fit for larger systems.
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote:
On 10/28/2013 09:29 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote:
How to configure dovecot to use different default mail_location for system (uid<1_000) and normal users (uid>=1_000)?
I want to to use by default
- classic mailbox in standard location for system users
- maildir in $HOME subdirectory for normal users
That depends :-)
If you have just one userdb, configure the default mail_location for most users and return a mail extra field for the other ones.
You use passwd? This probably will not work, see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields about the syntax
You could probably copy the set of users, that requires extra fields, from your /etc/passwd to somewhere else, adding the extra field. Then configure the copy as userdb { driver passwd-file } _before_ the userdb { passwd }. That way, the entries in the passwd-file override the ones in /etc/passwd, because they are found first.
I have used userdb/passwd fix for a system with a few "real user mailboxes". I wanted something better fit for larger systems.
Hmm? You need to return a different mail field for one set of users. /etc/passwd cannot do this. So you need some other userdb for the set of users, for whom you want to override the default mail_location, be it passwd-file, SQL, LDAP, ... .
You wrote "normal users (uid>=1_000)", so they are system users in /etc/passwd as well, I assumed. If those system already use another user database, try using it and extend it with the Dovecot settings.
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