dovecot - Nov 2008 - Loginname - mapping

Hi!

I have a server with a few thousand mailboxes (for a few hundred 
domains) on it. The usernames are following several naming conventions:

   username_domain
   domain_username
   username_domain.tld
   username-domain
   domain.username

The reason for this chaos is that the accounts were set up on different 
mailservers, some imail, some linux, some with virtualmin and some 
manually and through aquisitons etc it has all ended up in one server.

Now we are setting up atmail to replace imp. The loginprocess of atmail 
is a bit different in that you just type in your mail address and atmail 
tries a few combinations of loginnames to login.

However, some of the combinations over atmail cant login to. Some of 
them works fine when using this line in dovecot.conf

auth_username_translation = @_

Is there any facility to let dovecot do username mapping?

If I eg have a file: usermapping that looks like this:

user at domain1.com	domain1_user
user at domain2.com	user_domain2
user at domain3.com	domain3.user

And yes, I know that the best way is to start again and use virtual 
domains and get all into one naming standard, but unfortunately, that is 
not going to happen.

The other alternative is of course to hack into the source code of 
atmail, but I am not that confident in PHP.

Any ideas?

-- 
Regards Roald Amundsen

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 21:49 +0100, Roald Amundsen wrote:
> Is there any facility to let dovecot do username mapping?
> 
> If I eg have a file: usermapping that looks like this:
> 
> user at domain1.com	domain1_user
> user at domain2.com	user_domain2
> user at domain3.com	domain3.user
Yes, but can you change your passdb? You can use any passdb that allows
specifying user=user at domain extra field
(http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields). For example with
passwd-file (http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile):

domain1_user:{plain}pass:1000:1000::/home/domain1.com/user::user=user at
domain1.com

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 21:49 +0100, Roald Amundsen wrote:
>> Is there any facility to let dovecot do username mapping?
>>
>> If I eg have a file: usermapping that looks like this:
>>
>> user at domain1.com	domain1_user
>> user at domain2.com	user_domain2
>> user at domain3.com	domain3.user
> 
> Yes, but can you change your passdb? You can use any passdb that allows
> specifying user=user at domain extra field
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields). For example with
> passwd-file (http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile):
> 
> domain1_user:{plain}pass:1000:1000::/home/domain1.com/user::user=user at
domain1.com
> 
Thanks, this seems to be what I am looking for. However, I am not sure 
if I am reading the links right. I am supposed to make a custom 
passwd-file, and point dovecot to this?

I can use a script to parse genericstable or even virtusertable and add 
this information at the end of the dovecot-passwd-file?

And I can still use /etc/passwd as a fallback in case something goes 
wrong? As long as I keep userdb passwd in dovecot.conf?

Well, I think I should be reading some more documentation and look at 
the example configs on the wiki. Thanks for the help!

-- 
Roald Amundsen