[Dovecot] how to separate virtual delivery and authentication?

[Mihai Badici]

> 
> IMHO, exactly that works with the maildrop LDAP attribute. You enumerate
> all mail addresses into maildrop. Use maildrop in userdb filter only. If
> you like to use "uid" on command line of doveadm, you need to add the uid
> to maildrop as well, otherwise have the passdb return another username,
> e.g. the "mail" LDAP attribute to convert the uid into mail adress.
> 
> --
> Steffen Kaiser

This is also a workaround, adding uid to maildrop. Think at, for example, 
using Active Directory with dovecot ( I do not recommend that :) )
I wonder if I could use only passdb filter for authentication (and let userdb 
for delivery) , this could be far better.But I think this is a design issue. 



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Mihai Bădici
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