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

[Timo Sirainen]

More complicated, but still possible: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting

> On 22 Feb 2016, at 14:40, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan at affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 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