Re: [Dovecot] Variable %h not recognized in userdb_mail (passwd-file)

2007-03-14 Thread Michal Soltys

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:36 +0100, Michal Soltys wrote:

As in subject, if you for instance create a simple passwd-file with:

[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:{plain}pass:2:10::/home/regular/.test::userdb_mail=maildir:%h/maildir

Dovecot (rc23  27) will expand %h to empty string, and try to make a 
directory under /


Looks like the expansion was done too early. Fixed:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008128.html


Now dovecot both expands %h and treats it literally, creating following 
directory: /home/regular/.test/%h/maildir


Assuming passwd-file as previously.



Re: [Dovecot] Variable %h not recognized in userdb_mail (passwd-file)

2007-03-14 Thread Michal Soltys

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 15:31 +0100, Michal Soltys wrote:

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:36 +0100, Michal Soltys wrote:

As in subject, if you for instance create a simple passwd-file with:

[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:{plain}pass:2:10::/home/regular/.test::userdb_mail=maildir:%h/maildir

Dovecot (rc23  27) will expand %h to empty string, and try to make a 
directory under /

Looks like the expansion was done too early. Fixed:
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-March/008128.html
Now dovecot both expands %h and treats it literally, creating following 
directory: /home/regular/.test/%h/maildir


I'm not sure why it would do this. The dovecot master should expand the
mail environment once more, so %h should have expanded. It also worked
in my tests..

Anyway, after thinking about this for a while I think the change is
wrong anyway, so I reverted it. I think the solution for now is just to
not use %h, since dovecot-auth can't expand it and it's not that simple
to add the code to do that.

Do you see %h elsewhere in Wiki than in MailLocation? I changed that
now.



Can't find it anywhere else.

Also, some small remark could be added in 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile and possibly in 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation, that %h cannot be used in userdb_mail 
as in mail_location.


If %h could cause problems in other places (like ldap, sql,...), 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables might need adjusting too.