[Dovecot] Dovecot username mapping

[Brian T Glenn]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:55:47PM -0500, Adam Fuzzy Kennedy may have written:
> 
> I have dovecot working just peachy with the setup, except for one 
> problem. We are an ISP. The easiest thing for us (and our users) is to 
> have them use their full email address as their username.
> 
> What I need is some way to have Dovecot take a username and map it to 
> the real unix user. Our unix users are created as "username-domain.com"

You could also use LDAP as the backend instead of the UNIX passwd 
database. You can create shell users out of them if you want to using 
libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap.

I use this kind of setup with dovecot and qmail-ldap. You can give a 
custom filter to dovecot to search for as well, so I can disable users 
in the MTA and IMAP/POP3 just by setting:

accountStatus: disabled

in the DN for that user.

HTH,
-- 
Brian T Glenn
delink.net Internet Services
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