On Aug 1, 2008, at 1:39 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:
| mailboxes=`printf "1 list "" *\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap | perl magic`Ok, looks easy. But I can't find information anywhere on how to specify the user. I tried with 'USER=username' in front of the dovecot call, and dovecot then said 'Logged in as username' instead of 'Logged in as root', but a list command doesn't show the mailboxes, so I think it's not accessing the maildirof that user.I guess it's because the users are not system users, and dovecot needs to retrieve info from the LDAP directory first. But how do I tell it to do that?
You can't do that with --exec-mail. It expects to be running using the correct UID, GID, $USER and $HOME.
Logging in via netcat / telnet works, but then I don't know how to proceed...
With v1.2 code you could use the same printf .. | nc localhost 143, but unfortunately this doesn't work with older versions since the input buffer is reset after login.
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