> 1) If LDA is invoked without > lookups, is it correct to assume that the "service auth" and > "service > auth-worker" can be completely removed from dovecot master > configuration? (I have tried commenting them out and logging into IMAP, > which seems to work, not sure if anyone else needs the auth service)
Any confirmation on this? > 2) > If LDA is invoked without lookups, will I be unable to use Dovecot > quota plugin? Does it need to have a user lookup to get quota info? > (haven't added quota support, need to take this one step at a time) I'm especially interested if someone can comment on this, since maybe it makes my efforts here wasted > 3) The interesting part -- I am invoking LDA from Maildrop. See: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/65473 > So > when invoked, Maildrop has already dropped to the destination UID/GID > and the needed paths are available in the environment. However, using > as many permutations of calling LDA as I can think of (based on > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA ), I always get this: > > (command line usage error. Command output: lda: Fatal: Couldn't lookup our > username (uid=2500) ) I could not find anything in the mailing list archives to help me, but I googled and found a link to a source file: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-sieve-1.1/raw-rev/7d85833eff96 I read the source, it looks like it's not exactly a userdb lookup - LDA is trying to get the unix username for the given UID. In my case, UIDs are "virtual" so there isn't a unix username. The source doesn't really use the username that it looks up except in a call "open_logfile." Is it possible to avoid this problem? It looks like the answer is no, I have to use -d which also forces a userdb lookup. Maybe this limitation can be removed in the future? Now I suppose I have to go understand the problems of userdb lookup permissions, but I think there are solutions for that. Am I on the right understanding ? > The > UID is correct for the target user. If I add "-d $LOGNAME" to my LDA > callout, I get permission denied on the userdb lookup, which I guess is > another issue to work out if I want to go with lookups. But right now I > am trying not to. Why does LDA seem to try for a lookup even when I > follow the wiki instructions how to call it without a lookup? > > 3.5) > Related question, my users have separate homedir and maildir, both > paths are looked up by Maildrop. I think I need to call LDA with > "HOME=$DEFAULT dovecot-lda -f $FROM". Is this correct? >