<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 13 sept. 2019 à 12:53, Gerben Wierda via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Sep 2019, at 11:51, Jean-Daniel Dupas <<a href="mailto:jddupas@xooloo.com" class="">jddupas@xooloo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 13 sept. 2019 à 09:29, Gerben Wierda via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Nobody?<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Sep 2019, at 11:58, Gerben Wierda via dovecot <<a href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org" class="">dovecot@dovecot.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I am new to dovecot administration. I’ve read the Wiki but that hasn’t given me the understanding I need.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I query my LDAP (on macOS) on a value for user ‘gerben’, I can get that:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">dumbledore:~ gerben$ dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read /users/gerben GeneratedUID</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">GeneratedUID: 780D870E-6B00-478E-AB70-3D3307215A82</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div><div class="">I would like to use that value in dovecot settings, e.g. something like</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">user_attrs = \<br class=""> =mail=<a href="maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%%7Bldap:GeneratedUID%7D" class="">maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%{ldap:GeneratedUID}</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this possible and if so what do I exactly need to do to get this working?</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">As the answer is in the question, it is hard to give you any hint about what should be done.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">What is wrong with </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">user_attrs = \<br class=""> =mail=<a href="maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%25%7Bldap:GeneratedUID%7D" class="">maildir://Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%{ldap:GeneratedUID}</a></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Did you try it ? Have you got any issue with it ?</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven’t tried anything yet as I am trying to learn before I do anything (and trial and error is a very slow method), but it seems to me that just that line cannot be enough. Because how does “ldap:” know to go looking in the LDAP structure at "/Users/<username>/“ in the LDAP “/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1”? Somehow I shall have to tell dovecot that.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>OK, so your question is more about how to configure LDAP in dovecot for basic usage.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you want to query the LDAP, you first have to learn what its structure is, and then you should tell dovecot where to look at using the 'base' and 'scope' parameter and what to look at using the 'user_filter' parameter.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I never tried to access OpenDirectory using LDAP queries, so you will have to search online about how it should be done.</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>