dovecot - Oct 2013 - separate mail_location for system and normal users

How to configure dovecot to use different default mail_location for
system (uid<1_000) and normal users (uid>=1_000)?

I want to to use by default
* classic mailbox in standard location for system users
* maildir in $HOME subdirectory for normal users

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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote:
> How to configure dovecot to use different default mail_location for
> system (uid<1_000) and normal users (uid>=1_000)?
>
> I want to to use by default
> * classic mailbox in standard location for system users
> * maildir in $HOME subdirectory for normal users
That depends :-)

If you have just one userdb, configure the default mail_location for most 
users and return a mail extra field for the other ones.

You use passwd? This probably will not work, see 
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields about the syntax

You could probably copy the set of users, that requires extra fields, from 
your /etc/passwd to somewhere else, adding the extra field. Then configure 
the copy as userdb { driver passwd-file } _before_ the userdb { passwd }. 
That way, the entries in the passwd-file override the ones in /etc/passwd, 
because they are found first.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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