Re: [Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Tony Rutherford wrote: For migration possibilities, we're considering whether it's possible to have Dovecot run some users using standard Maildir format, while other users would be using filesystem (LAYOUT=fs) format? We could determine which one's users have, but is there a way to tell Dovecot this information, and is it even part of the Dovecot design to deal with this scenario? I haven't tried 2.0, but in the 1.1 series we accomplished this by having a small C shim that ran on login and delivery, which checked a telltale sign (in our case, whether /var/mail/user was a real file or a symlink to ~/Maildir), and setting namespace environment variables based on that. -Brian
Re: [Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 15:07 -0500, Tony Rutherford wrote: For migration possibilities, we're considering whether it's possible to have Dovecot run some users using standard Maildir format, while other users would be using filesystem (LAYOUT=fs) format? We could determine which one's users have, but is there a way to tell Dovecot this information, and is it even part of the Dovecot design to deal with this scenario? What userdb do you use? You could have it return mail=maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs field for the non-standard users. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?
Thanks Brian for pointing me in the right direction...got it! Tony Brian Hayden wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Tony Rutherford wrote: For migration possibilities, we're considering whether it's possible to have Dovecot run some users using standard Maildir format, while other users would be using filesystem (LAYOUT=fs) format? We could determine which one's users have, but is there a way to tell Dovecot this information, and is it even part of the Dovecot design to deal with this scenario? I haven't tried 2.0, but in the 1.1 series we accomplished this by having a small C shim that ran on login and delivery, which checked a telltale sign (in our case, whether /var/mail/user was a real file or a symlink to ~/Maildir), and setting namespace environment variables based on that. -Brian
Re: [Dovecot] Different Formats Per User?
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 15:07 -0500, Tony Rutherford wrote: For migration possibilities, we're considering whether it's possible to have Dovecot run some users using standard Maildir format, while other users would be using filesystem (LAYOUT=fs) format? We could determine which one's users have, but is there a way to tell Dovecot this information, and is it even part of the Dovecot design to deal with this scenario? What userdb do you use? You could have it return mail=maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs field for the non-standard users. http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase We use LDAP. Thanks for the info, I think this is an option or maybe something in post login scripting to populate the mail environment variable.
