[Dovecot] new configure-option --disable-index

[Steffen Kaiser]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Marten Lehmann wrote:

Hello,

Let's put together some posts:

>> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:10:00 +0100
>> From: Marten Lehmann <lehmann at cnm.de>
>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] new configure-option --disable-index
>> 
>> > However, I never used passwd, but it's limited to uid/pwd/homedir 
>> anyway, right? So you ought to have some fixed template to reach your
>> > mailboxes relative to the user's homedirectory, which you can put into 
>> default_mail_env and add the ":INDEX=MEMORY" there.
>> 
>> As I said before: The Maildir-folder is more complex.
>> 
>> Let's say we have a mailbox called try at test.de, the it's maildir-location 
>> would be /pop3/mailboxes/t/te/test.de/_/try/Maildir.
>> 
>> If it would be a subdomain of test.de, lets says try at subdomain.test.de, 
>> the maildir-location would be
>> /pop3/mailboxes/t/te/test.de/subdomain/try/Maildir.

Let me guess another time:

your passwd-file entry looks like so:
try:pwd:uid:gid:gecos:/pop3/mailboxes/t/te/test.de/subdomain/try:/bin/false

As Dovecot is concerned the homedirectory of "try" is:
/pop3/mailboxes/t/te/test.de/subdomain/try

>> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:56:33 +0100 (CET)
>> From: Jakob Hirsch <jh at plonk.de>
>> Reply-To: "dovecot at dovecot.org" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] new configure-option --disable-index
>> 
>> Marten Lehmann wrote:
>> 
>> >> The default is autodetection.
>> > I don't think that dovecot will be able to find my mailboxes without
>> > giving it a hint, because the location is neither /var/spool/mail/%u nor
>> > ~/Maildir :-)

~/MailDir would expand to 
/pop3/mailboxes/t/te/test.de/subdomain/try/MaiDir, because that's try's home
directory.

>> You have to give it some hint where they are, of course, e.g. the home
>> directory.
>
> is it possible the define default_mail_env so that the homedir given in the 
> userdb is used, e.g.
>
> default_mail_env = maildir:$HOME:INDEX=MEMORY

That's a question, correct? :-)

default_mail_env = maildir:%h/MailDir:INDEX=MEMORY
-or even, if you don't use the home directory for other stuff than email-
default_mail_env = maildir:%h:INDEX=MEMORY

So: as long as your userdb always returns the location of the mail
storage location as home directory, you use a fixed template for
the mail folders and, hence, can use default_mail_env

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser