New to dovecot admin, question about using LDAP for user-specific values

[Gerben Wierda]

Nobody?

> On 10 Sep 2019, at 11:58, Gerben Wierda via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> I am new to dovecot administration. I’ve read the Wiki but that hasn’t given me the understanding I need.
> 
> When I query my LDAP (on macOS) on a value for user ‘gerben’, I can get that:
> 
> dumbledore:~ gerben$ dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read /users/gerben GeneratedUID
> GeneratedUID: 780D870E-6B00-478E-AB70-3D3307215A82
> 
> I would like to use that value in dovecot settings, e.g. something like
> 
> user_attrs = \
>   =mail=maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%{ldap:GeneratedUID} <maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%%7Bldap:GeneratedUID%7D>
> 
> Is this possible and if so what do I exactly need to do to get this working?
> 
> Gerben Wierda
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