[Dovecot] Username mapping

Timo Sirainen
Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:00:45 -0000

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:52 +0200, 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?

You could move all old users to user at some.domain usernames, and set
auth_default_realm = some.domain. Then if the user doesn't give the
domain part, the default realm is appended to username.

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