Re: [Dovecot] Userdb and home directories

2007-08-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:23 +0100, Mike Brudenell wrote: > [Quick side-question: should I be using $USER or $RESTRICTED_USER > here? I can't work out what the difference between them is. Both > are set within Dovecot's standard environment.] If you're using system users they're the same. If

Re: [Dovecot] Userdb and home directories

2007-08-06 Thread Chris Wakelin
Mike Brudenell wrote: > Greetings - > > A lot of reading and testing has led me part-way to an answer. If > anyone can help me get all the way there I'll be really grateful: I only > have 48 hours now before the system has to go live! > > The problem... > > We are using "userdb passwd" to get

Re: [Dovecot] Userdb and home directories

2007-08-06 Thread Mike Brudenell
Greetings - A lot of reading and testing has led me part-way to an answer. If anyone can help me get all the way there I'll be really grateful: I only have 48 hours now before the system has to go live! The problem... We are using "userdb passwd" to get a user's details from our main NI

Re: [Dovecot] Userdb and home directories (clarification)

2007-08-03 Thread Mike Brudenell
Greetings - I'm just feeling I need to clarify my previous message a bit to explain the problem better... On 3 Aug 2007, at 11:33, Mike Brudenell wrote: We have two NetApp filers: one serves people's home directories; the other their message store and control files filestores. At the mom

[Dovecot] Userdb and home directories

2007-08-03 Thread Mike Brudenell
Greetings - I've just discovered an oddity I didn't know I had... We have two NetApp filers: one serves people's home directories; the other their message store and control files filestores. At the moment the first of the two filers is not accessible to my Dovecot system and I assumed all