[Dovecot] Shared Mailboxes with VirtualUsers and mail_location retrieved from ldap

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On 09/08/2011 03:07 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 12:14 +0100, mailing lists wrote:
> 
>> yes, my virtual users have separate directories for home and mail.
>> Their locations are stored in ldap attributes (with random generated
>> paths), so a flat scheme like /var/maildr/%%u isn't valid.
> 
> Sorry, you're out of luck with that kind of a setup. Only the %%h can
> look up a home directory from LDAP. Maybe some day in future there will
> be other variables that can be looked up.

and how to I might configure dovecot to use the mail directory as a subdirectory of the home directory?

this way all lookups for home (with %%h fetched from ldap) will return the correct locationand mail will be in (i.e.) ~/mailSubDir

is this configuration possible?