[Dovecot] dovecot 2 variables

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.4.2013, at 23.51, Pavel Dimow <paveldimow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to use separate configurations for ldap authentication thus
> providing users
> with the ability to only use username without domain part. Now according to
> documentation this should be possible
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
> 
> but I keep getting error in my dovecot.log like this
> 
> auth: Error: Can't open configuration file
> /etc/dovecot/%l/dovecot-ldap.conf: No such file or directory
> 
> Why does dovecot does not expand %l to local ip address?

That expansion works only with passwd-file, not with anything else (such as ldap).