dovecot - Jun 2009 - Help please- Post - Login Script--- Migration

Hi all
  I am in the process of migrating Courier to Dovecot, am using
courier-dovecot-migrate.pl<http://www.dovecot.org/tools/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl>it
works fine. I want to migrate each user as they login using post-login
script (As i have huge no of users). We are using NFS storage,  users are
authenticated using mysql, User home directories as passed using variable
mail ( usign mysql query).

   I am trying to execute postlogin script which does the conversion but
unable to pass the user home directories .


--*/etc/dovecot.conf

mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/postloginscript.sh %h
---*
%h  ---- for home directory.


---*postloginscript.sh

#!/bin/sh
/usr/libexec/dovecot/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --quiet --to-dovecot
--recursive --convert $1
# This is for  pop3
exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
----*


When i pass %h as argument its creating  "%h" directory and writing
dovecot-uidlist and rest the files in %h directory. Its not interpreting the
%h and not passing the home directory. Its just passing as it is.

Hope i am clear in articulating my problem. Please help.

-- 
Regards
Ash

Ashraf wrote:
> Hi all
>   I am in the process of migrating Courier to Dovecot, am using
>
courier-dovecot-migrate.pl<http://www.dovecot.org/tools/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl>it
> works fine. I want to migrate each user as they login using post-login
> script (As i have huge no of users). We are using NFS storage,  users are
> authenticated using mysql, User home directories as passed using variable
> mail ( usign mysql query).
> 
>    I am trying to execute postlogin script which does the conversion but
> unable to pass the user home directories .
> 
> 
> --*/etc/dovecot.conf
> 
> mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/postloginscript.sh %h
> ---*
> %h  ---- for home directory.
> 
> 
> ---*postloginscript.sh
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/libexec/dovecot/courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --quiet --to-dovecot
> --recursive --convert $1
> # This is for  pop3
> exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> ----*
> 
> 
> When i pass %h as argument its creating  "%h" directory and
writing
> dovecot-uidlist and rest the files in %h directory. Its not interpreting
the
> %h and not passing the home directory. Its just passing as it is.
> 

I could be wrong, but I don't think you can do that. The mail_executable
setting is for the location of the binary.

~Seth

Seth,  I have tried to use most of them but whichever i use its creating a
folder and then its creating the dovecot-uidlist and rest of the files.
please advice.



2009/6/2 Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us>
> Ashraf wrote:
> > Once the script is executed its executing the binary as a last step.
> > Reference http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier
> >
> >  You can also convert each user as they log in for the first time,
using
> > PostLoginScripting <http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting>
with a
> > script something like:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # WARNING: Be sure to use mail_drop_priv_before_exec=yes,
> > # otherwise the files are created as root!
> >
> > courier-dovecot-migrate.pl --quiet --to-dovecot --convert ~/Maildir
> > # This is for imap, create a similar script for pop3 too
> > exec /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
> >
> > in place of ~/Maildir i want to pass the home directory of users which
is
> > passed as mail variable (Query from MySql).
> >
> > Appreciate your response.
> >
>
> According to those links you need to use the various environment
> variables. Why have you chosen not to do that?
>
> ~Seth
>


-- 
Regards
Ashraf

Ashraf wrote:
> Seth,  I have tried to use most of them but whichever i use its creating a
> folder and then its creating the dovecot-uidlist and rest of the files.
> please advice.
> 
The variable ${HOME} - in your script, not in the mail_executable
setting - should give you what you want.

~Seth

Cheers will try Thanks for your help really appreciate.

2009/6/2 Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us>
> Ashraf wrote:
> > Seth,  I have tried to use most of them but whichever i use its
creating
> a
> > folder and then its creating the dovecot-uidlist and rest of the
files.
> > please advice.
> >
>
> The variable ${HOME} - in your script, not in the mail_executable
> setting - should give you what you want.
>
> ~Seth
>


-- 
Regards
Ashraf

Thanks Seth. It works really appreciate your help. Well done.

2009/6/3 Ashraf <ashraf311 at googlemail.com>
> Cheers will try Thanks for your help really appreciate.
>
> 2009/6/2 Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us>
>
>> Ashraf wrote:
>>
>> > Seth,  I have tried to use most of them but whichever i use its
creating
>> a
>> > folder and then its creating the dovecot-uidlist and rest of the
files.
>> > please advice.
>> >
>>
>> The variable ${HOME} - in your script, not in the mail_executable
>> setting - should give you what you want.
>>
>> ~Seth
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Ashraf
>


-- 
Regards
Ashraf