On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:18 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: > 2) Having some sort of db to tell DC it a mail_userdb extra field and > override the mail_location in dovecot.conf > 3) Perhaps waiting for DC v2.0 which will have this architected in. > > A) Is there any sense the v2.0 will be coming Real Soon Now and will > fulfill #3?
There's nothing in v2.0 that makes this easier. Or nothing I can think of.. > B) What's the simplest way to implement #2? I would really rather not > install MySQL on my mail server and have all the overhead of installing > and managing it when all I need it for is a temporary resource to tell > DC where things are until the switchover is complete and Maildir is the > default. Is it feasible to do this with an additional flat file in the > /etc/passwd mode with some extra fields tacked on that is *only* used > for mail location info? Or some other and simple way? You could use a userdb passwd-file. If your users are currently in /etc/passwd, just make a copy of it to dovecot.passwd or something and add userdb_mail extra fields to it as needed. Once everyone are migrated, change the default mail_location and move back to userdb passwd. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile Of course if you have to add/delete users often it's going to be more annoying since you have to modify two files.
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