On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:14 -0500, Steve Hoffman wrote:

I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm new to the list and to dovecot. I'm trying to add imap to our existing setup where we host many virtual domains and would like to use dovecot to do it as I find it's one of the most configurable I've seen so far. The problem is that our virtual users passwd files are kept in seperate directories so /etc/virtual/%d/passwd, but I can't use the variable substitution in the dovecot.conf file as it results in a load error because it won't translate the %d. I'm using the latest development release, test65.

Not possible right now. Someone would have to write code for that..

I read in the config file that you can use many passdb's but do I have to put them all in there or is there a way to use some sort of substitution?

That could work, except:

The other issue I'm having is when I try to test the connection (with a hard coded path to passwd) it fails auth if I pass the username "user@domain.com" but passes if I pass just "user". Any help or places you can point me for these issues?

The username in the passwd file would also have to be user@domain.com for it to work.

Perhaps you could write a script that converts all your passwd files into single large passwd-file with usernames in user@domain format?