[Dovecot] LMTP: userdb lookup - user-filter with variables

[Burckhard Schmidt]

Am 31.07.2013 14:05, schrieb Burckhard Schmidt:
> I tried to use dovcots lmtp instead of dovecot-lda.
> postfix has in master.cf ... dovecot-lda -f ... -d ${user} to separate
> the user part from user at hostname.domain.
> So lookup of "user" succeeds in userdb (LDAP) done by dovecot-lda.
>
> I have always local addresses like to=<user at hostname.domain>
> postfix/lmtp[6579]: [ID 197553 mail.info] B3CDA66A16:
> to=<h0094slk at mailstore4.hu-berlin.de>
>
> With lmtp the userpart must be separated also. I tried user_filter
> (LDAP) with %n, %Ln, %8n without success: userdb lookup:
> user at hostname.domain doesn't exist)

Missing charachters "@.-" in auth_username_chars prevents 
user at host.domain to be a valid address at all.

>
> dovecot-2.1.17
> I used "doveadm user h0094slk" and
> "doveadm user h0094slk at mailstore4.hu-berlin.de"
> for my tests.
>
> userdb {
>    driver = ldap
>    args = /usr/dovecot/etc/ldapuser.conf
> }
> and ldapuser.conf with
> ...
> user_filter = (&(uid=%n) (objectClass=cmsAccount))
> user_attrs = homeDirectory=home
>
> I modified user_filter like uid=%Ln or uid=%8u
>
> success for doveadm user h0094slk (because nothing to split)
> userdb: h0094slk
>    home      : /home/p0094/h0094slk
>
> but no success for
> doveadm user h0094slk at mailstore4.hu-berlin.de
> userdb lookup: user h0094slk at mailstore4.hu-berlin.de doesn't exist
>
> It looks for me like user_filter do not use variables at this point?
> What I'm missing?
>


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