[Dovecot] user name before and after authentication

[François Wautier]

Hi,

I am new to dovecot and spend the last few hours trying to configure it to my 
liking. 

I am using version 1.0.2

I have  a setup where I only have "virtual" mailboxes  in various domain ( 
mydomain.com, mydomain.biz,...). I setup Exim to deliver the email into
	<some path>/domains/<domainname>/<user>

Now I am trying to get dovecot to access those mailboxes

I setup LDAP bind authentication against an AD server.  it works fine... but

I have a problem getting the correct path to the mailboxes.

The user logs in as
	user at domain.ext

		The mailbox path being at  <some path>/domains/%n/%u 

	The LDAP module gets the DN for my user and verify that it can binds, and in 
        the process changes the "user" to  
		cn=<real name>,cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=ext 

		There goes my path

	To make matter worse, the uid and gid are the same for all users and are 
	fixed (exim user and group). Hence cannot be retrieved from AD

I tried to use 
	userdb static, but I can't seem to be able to reset "user" to its
	pre-authentication value

	userdb prefetch/ldap  but I can't set the uid/gid

So here are my request for help...

	Is there a way to set home dir/ mail dir before authentication?
	Is there a way to reference the pre-auth user name?
	Is there a way to create arbitrary variables and used them?
	Is there a way to fix the uid/gid to use to access the mailboxes?

Any one of these could probably solve my problem.

Any suggestion is most welcome.

	François