[Dovecot] %d does not expand to domain

[Giuliano Gavazzi]

On M 27 Apr, 2009, at 23:23 , Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> For me it's not a big deal, as was trying this only to give a  
> different layout to users' mailboxes.

but it would be a big deal if I wanted to create domain specific  
public mailboxes.
In order to allow extra parameters passed by the client (like in this  
case the domain name) to survive for subsequent use, perhaps there  
should be a username_format for all passdb (and userdb) methods, like  
the is for passwd-file. One could then let auth_username_format alone  
and preserve the %d variable for subsequent use. If I did not want %d  
to be used at all, I would not specify it in the client configuration  
from the start...

The documentation would have to be quite clear though, as  
auth_username_format seems more specific to authentication/ 
authorisation, while username_format would seem a global one, while,  
as it is now, auth_username_format rewrites globally the username, and  
username_format is specific to the authentication/authorization where  
it is allowed and defined.

Giuliano