Setup changes 1.x to 2.x -- custom POP3 account handling required.

[Andrew McGlashan]

No help?  Is this possible to do as I had done before but with the newer
version?

Thanks
A.

On 22/02/2016 5:52 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Previously I did /special/ processing for some email accounts; if a
> particular file existed in the user's home directory, then I caused the
> account to use /var/mail/$USER file for POP -- otherwise it used IMAP.
> 
> Now, because I adjusted the setup for POP only, IMAP still worked
> perfectly well.  Some users have both POP and IMAP access for various
> reasons.
> 
> The special POP processing was done using a shell script [1] in place of:
>    /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
>  - which in turn called the normal binary once setting up the
>    environment.
> 
> Now, I have been forced to upgrade my Debian from squeeze-lts to wheezy
> and the dovecot setup is quite different.
> 
> How can I implement my /wrapper/ script for POP handling now?
> 
> Here is my current setup with dovecot -n ...
> 
> # 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.9
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> namespace inbox {
>   inbox = yes
>   location =
>   mailbox Drafts {
>     special_use = \Drafts
>   }
>   mailbox Junk {
>     special_use = \Junk
>   }
>   mailbox Sent {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Items" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox "Sent Messages" {
>     special_use = \Sent
>   }
>   mailbox Trash {
>     special_use = \Trash
>   }
>   prefix =
> }
> passdb {
>   driver = pam
> }
> plugin {
>   sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>   sieve_dir = ~/sieve
> }
> protocols = " imap pop3"
> service imap-login {
>   inet_listener imap {
>     port = 0
>   }
> }
> service pop3-login {
>   inet_listener pop3 {
>     port = 0
>   }
> }
> ssl = required
> ssl_cert = </etc/exim4/exim.crt
> ssl_key = </etc/exim4/exim.key
> userdb {
>   driver = passwd
> }
> 
> 
> [1] This is the content of the original wrapper script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ -f $HOME/.use-mbox-for-pop3s ]; then
>         export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$USER
>         export USER_INBOX=/var/mail/$USER
>         if [ -f $USER_INBOX ]
>         then
>                 export USER_INBOX_GROUP=$(stat -c %G $USER_INBOX)
>                 if [ $USER_INBOX_GROUP != $USER ]
>                 then
>                         (
>                         date
>                         ls -l $USER_INBOX
>                         chown Debian-exim:$USER $USER_INBOX
>                         ls -l $USER_INBOX
>                         ) >> /var/log/usr-lib-dovecot--pop3-affinity.log
>                 fi
>         fi
> else
>         if [ -d $HOME/Maildir ]; then
>                 export MAIL=Maildir:$HOME/Maildir
>         else
>                 export MAIL=mbox:$HOME/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/$USER
>         fi
> fi
> 
> # Finally execute the imap/pop3. If you use both, you'll need two scripts.
> # - this customization just for POP3S ...
> exec /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> AndrewM