On 19.10.2012, at 23.43, E.B. wrote: > I'm having some problems getting LDA to work without > userdb lookups and have a few related questions. This system has all > users in MySQL, each user with unique UID/GID, no local users at all. > Installation is from apt-get. > > > 1) If LDA is invoked without > lookups, is it correct to assume that the "service auth" and "service > auth-worker" can be completely removed from dovecot master > configuration? (I have tried commenting them out and logging into IMAP, > which seems to work, not sure if anyone else needs the auth service)
If you remove them the defaults are simply used. > 2) > If LDA is invoked without lookups, will I be unable to use Dovecot > quota plugin? Does it need to have a user lookup to get quota info? > (haven't added quota support, need to take this one step at a time) You can give quota info also via either environment variables or via -o plugin/quota_rule=xx parameter. > 3) The interesting part -- I am invoking LDA from Maildrop. See: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/65473 > So > when invoked, Maildrop has already dropped to the destination UID/GID > and the needed paths are available in the environment. However, using > as many permutations of calling LDA as I can think of (based on > http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA ), I always get this: > > (command line usage error. Command output: lda: Fatal: Couldn't lookup our > username (uid=2500) ) Set USER environment. > 3.5) > Related question, my users have separate homedir and maildir, both > paths are looked up by Maildrop. I think I need to call LDA with > "HOME=$DEFAULT dovecot-lda -f $FROM". Is this correct? As long as the home and mail directories point to the same ones as they are when logging in via IMAP/POP3.
