[Dovecot] Username mapping

[Andrew Hutchings]

nodata wrote:
> Hello.
> We're using dovecot with mysql for authentication, with postfixadmin for
> the admin web interface.
> 
> We are moving users from passwd file usernames to email at domain style logins.
> 
> Is there a better way to allow both sets of usernames (old and new) to
> work with dovecot than by adding extra copies of rows to the mailboxes
> table and changing the username? i.e. does dovecot support some kind of
> username mapping or aliasing?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 

Hi,

We do the same thing.  The easiest way to do it is to set it up as 
normal, are old accounts start with 'dw' so you get a tree like this:

/Mailboxes/dw1234/Maildir/......
/Mailboxes/a-wing.co.uk/info/Maildir/......

To do this we use:
default_mail_env = 
maildir:/mailboxes/%d/%n/Maildir:INDEX=/tmp/dovecot/indexes/%d/%n
(the indexes use /tmp because the servers use an NFS file store)

The %d is ignored if empty.  Mail on the old accounts come in on 
dw1234 at our.mail.domain.com (usually forwarded from customer's real 
domain) and exim strips the domain part before delivery.

Regards
Andrew

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