Pat wrote: > How does one use a Dovecot passwd file in place of /etc/passwd to validate > local recipients? I'm not looking for authentication, just validation. > > Documentation is good on how to configure Postfix with Dovecot as an LDA > except for the part about setting "local_recipient_maps =". Avoiding > backscatter when setting local_recipient_maps to null appears to be left as > an exercise for the Reader. > > Proxy:unix would seem the logical choice but there is no way to do so with > an alternate password file. Neither is there support for a colon-delimited > map type. The only recommendation I could find was to set the primary > domain up as a virtual but that won't work in this environment. > > Seems like such a simple problem, to use an alternate passwd file or query > Dovecot directly before accepting a recipient. What am I missing? >
According to http://www.postfix.org/LOCAL_RECIPIENT_README.html#format , Any known table lookup type can be used in local_recipient_maps. For a list of known table types on your system, use 'postconf -m'. Using unix pipes or SASL is not a direct option, but you should be able to source them similarly.
