[Dovecot] passdb/userdb args

[François Wautier]

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:
> 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
> }