On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 20:49 -0700, Ran Talbott wrote: > As mentioned in my previous posting, I've set up a mailserver for a domain of > Winboxen, authenticated through Active Directory. After some struggles, I > finally got that working. But I also need to receive emails for a few system > users on the mailserver (like postmaster, and a couple of accounts set up > for maintaining the system). > > I thought, based on the way I read the documentation, that I could just add > a "userdb passwd", ahead of the "userdb ldap", and deliver would find their > home directory maildirs. The virtual users would fail the passwd search, > fall through to the LDAP check, and deliver would drop their mail into their > maildirs in the /var/mailstore tree. I knew the system users wouldn't be > able to login to the IMAP server, but this isn't a concern.
Yes, sounds right. > Instead, the system users' mail got bounced, after an auth check via > the "master" socket (from Postfix, I guess: it's a transient process) whose > details don't get logged. And the virtual users' lookups (done by deliver) > returned made-up UIDs and GIDs, and maildir locations > (/home/<realm>/<username>) completely different from what the LDAP lookup > normally returns (/var/mailstore/<username>). I've no idea why that would happen. dovecot -n output and logs with auth_debug=yes + mail_debug=yes would be helpful.
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