Vincent Zakofski
2013-Oct-03 08:23 UTC
[Dovecot] understanding user_attrs and mail_uid/gid
Hello, I'm trying to understand what's the difference between those parameters. In my dovecot.conf in the global section I have a definition of mail_uid and mail_gid. In my LDAP configuration used by passdb and userdb, I have a definition for user_attrs= uidNumber=500,gidNumber=8. Here is a part of my configuration files (dovecot version: 2.1.7) dovecot.conf mail_gid = 8 mail_uid = 500 passdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf driver = ldap } dovecot-ldap.conf user_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(mailLocalAddress=%n)) user_attrs = uidNumber=500,gidNumber=8 So everything works fine when all those parameters are present in my configuration files. If I suppress one of them nothing is working (mail reading or delivering). Can someone tell me where I can find a definition of those arguments, if found nothing relevant on the wiki. Thanks,