dovecot - Feb 2011 - problem configuring deliver in LDAP environment.

hello

I am using dovecot-1.2.15 in debian squeeze (packaged) and i have some 
difficulties migrating from an older installation tha is working perfectly.

i have a transport defined in postfix to call deliver as follows:

dovecotlda  unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
  flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -s -e -f ${sender}
-d ${recipient}

with the auth-socket in dovecot.conf all ok and this in ldap-userdb.conf:
user_attrs =
vdHome=chroot,mailbox=mail=maildir:%$,quota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,otherPath=sieve

you see, i have the base directory for the chroot for the entire mail system
in ldap:vdHome as /home/vmail/domains and the actual location of the mailbox
in maildir format in ldap:mailbox so i can have the actual complete path as
/(vdHome)/(mailbox)

This is running smoolthly, BUT the chroot environment with all the library 
dependencies is REALLY REALLY limiting because the huge number of files from 
the system i must put on the mail storeage (which is networked and used by more
systems so i cannot put libraries and binaries there)

What i am trying to do is leaving all the dovecot services running in chroot
mode
(as they do) but let deliver running in NORMAL (non-chroot mode)

so i need to remove the chroot variable in userattr reply, and parametrize the 
mail location with the two ldap values.

i am conscious that i can set up this as
user_attrs =
mailbox=mail=maildir:/home/vmail/domains/%$,quota=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$,otherPath=sieve

but I WANT TO KEEP THE BASE DIR PARAMETRIZED to leave me the possibility to
set the base dir in LDAP to goup the accounts on different mail storage system.

So you know a method to substitute TWO ldap values in the mail parameter
definition?

Thank you 
 Andrea

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 20:23 +0100, Andrea Borghi wrote:
> dovecotlda  unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>   flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -s -e -f
${sender} -d ${recipient}
..
> What i am trying to do is leaving all the dovecot services running in
chroot mode
> (as they do) but let deliver running in NORMAL (non-chroot mode)
How is deliver even chrooting? Postfix doesn't call it chrooted and
since it's user vmail:vmail the process isn't privileged to do any
chrooting of its own.
> So you know a method to substitute TWO ldap values in the mail parameter
definition?
Not possible currently.