[Dovecot] How can i override mail_location?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Zhang Huangbin wrote:

> I use dovecot-1.1.11 with OpenLDAP backend. but i found the
> mail_location is not correct. How can i override mail_location setting
> in dovecot.conf?

> homeDirectory: /home/vmail
> mailMessageStore: a.cn/w/ww/www/
> user_attrs      = 
> homeDirectory=home,=sieve_dir=/home/vmail/sieve/%Ld/%Ln/,mailMessageStore=maildir:mail,mailQuota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$

"mailMessageStore=maildir:mail"

this looks odd. Try:

mailMessageStore=mail

Dovecot should detect Maildir vs. mbox itself by existance of cur subdir.
But if relative paths work?

As far as I know Dovecot cannot concat strings retrieved from a backend. A 
SQL-backend itself can do it and will pass the result back, but LDAP 
cannot.

Depending on your user management it should be easier to add another LDAP 
attribute, say "mailDovecotLocation" with the prebuilt string, so you can 
add :INDEX, too.

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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