[Dovecot] Feature Request

[Daniel Parthey]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 10.10.2012, at 5.40, Marc Perkel wrote:
> 
> >>> It would be handy (for me) if there were a userdb where a directory structure defined the db.
> >>> 
> >>> userdb stat {
> >>>   mail_location=maildir:/fakedir/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs
> >>> }
> >>> 
> >>> userdb stat {
> >>>   mail_location=maildir:/email/%d/%n:INBOX=/email/%d/%n:LAYOUT=fs
> >>> }
> >>> 
> >>> The idea being that if the first directory doesn't exist then it will try the second one.
> >> You could already implement this as userdb checkpassword script.
> > 
> > Can you give me an example?
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> userdb {
>   driver = checkpasword
>   args = /usr/local/bin/userdb.sh
> }

Here is the documentation about how to implement a checkpassword script:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/CheckPassword

Dovecot sets some environment variables that the script may use.
All of the AUTH_* variables are available as AUTH_<long name>
extra fields in the environment:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables#line-30

Regards
Daniel
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