[Dovecot] new configure-option --disable-index

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Marten Lehmann wrote:

Hello,

>> The default is autodetection.
>
> I don't think that dovecot will be able to find my mailboxes without giving 
> it a hint, because the location is neither /var/spool/mail/%u nor ~/Maildir 
> :-)

>> Maybe there's still a way to do this. But you have to tell a little more
>> about your config and post your auth section from dovecot.conf.
>
> It's pretty short:
>
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> auth_verbose = yes
> auth default {
>  mechanisms = plain
>  passdb passwd-file {
>    args = /pop3/conf/pop3-auth.txt
>  }
>
>  userdb passwd-file {
>    args = /pop3/conf/pop3-auth.txt
>  }
> }

First I guess there is a problem with the default: yes vs. no
It is not sufficient to change the default mailbox setting, because this 
setting is used when the userdb does not specify a location. When the 
majority of your users is reachable with the same template, e.g.:

maildir:/mnt/hd%1Ri/%Ln/%Us:INDEX=MEMORY

(see dovecot_root/doc/variables.txt about the percent variables)

Otherwise, you must appended ":INDEX=MEMORY" to all settings in your 
userdb, e.g. my default:

default_mail_env = 
maildir:%h/MailDir:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot/%i:CONTROL=/var/spool/dovecot/%i

then I maintain a LDAP attribute named "mailDovecot" for those users with 
a different mailbox, e.g.:

mailDovecot: 
maildir:/mailcache/%Ln:INDEX=/var/spool/dovecot/%i:CONTROL=/var/spool/dovecot/%i

You see: the "extra" settings must be specified for each entry.

==

Hmm, maybe I grasp your problem now: You use a passwd file, which uses the 
colon as delimiter for its fields itself, right?

However, I never used passwd, but it's limited to uid/pwd/homedir anyway, 
right? So you ought to have some fixed template to reach your mailboxes 
relative to the user's homedirectory, which you can put into 
default_mail_env and add the ":INDEX=MEMORY" there.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser