4 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Changing Maildir ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Mike Lemoine | Jan 30, 2003 2:52 pm | |
| Anand Buddhdev | Jan 31, 2003 2:15 am | |
| Mike Lemoine | Jan 31, 2003 3:36 pm | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Jan 31, 2003 6:28 pm |
| Subject: | Re: [courier-users] Changing Maildir from $HOME/Maildir to /mail/$USER | |
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| From: | Mike Lemoine (sv...@reshape.com) | |
| Date: | Jan 31, 2003 3:36:42 pm | |
| List: | net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users | |
Anand Buddhdev wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:52:17PM -0800, Mike Lemoine wrote:
I'd like to have mail delivered to a spot other than a user's home directory...
At the moment I've got sendmail using maildrop as the local delivery agent, and using a global maildroprc which looks like:
import SENDER DEFAULT="/mail/$LOGNAME"
I've got it delivering to where i want it... (Can happily cat files under 'new' and verify that they are what I think they are) The problem is that imapd isn't reading from there.. It's trying to read from $HOME/Maildir... In my courierd config file, I've got:
DEFAULTDELIVERY="/mail/$LOGNAME/" MAILDROPDEFAULT="/mail/$LOGNAME/"
But no such luck...
I have done a 'maildirmake /mail/sven' to create the above maildir... (as evidenced by the fact that maildrop is delivering there...)
The imap server by default looks at $HOME/Maildir. To make it look at some other location, you have to edit the imapd startup script (usually /usr/lib/courier/sbin/imapd) and look for the couriertcpd line, which actually starts the imap daemon per connection. At the end of the line, you will see something like "/usr/lib/courier/bin/imapd Maildir" which tells the imap daemon to look for Maildir in the current directory (which is usually the user's home directory). Change the Maildir to something like "/mail/$AUTHENTICATED/Maildir", where the $AUTHENTICATED variable contains the logged-in username. Then restart the imap service. This is not documented, because most people do not do what you have done. Most people would use userdb, LDAP or SQL tables to set the location of the Maildir.
I'm at a bit of a loss, here... I can't see how to get the name of the user that will have/has authenticated into the command that starts the process that calls for his authentication...
I've tried using $LOGNAME, which (of course) fails, becuase the user is root at the time the shell variable is interprolated... I've tried escaping it out so that it gets interpreted later, but it doesn't, it ends up as the literal string /mail/$LOGNAME (or $USER, etc..)
Perhaps the solution is obvious, but I'm missing it...
I'd rather not set up a userdb, ldap directory, or sql table for this one purpose, as it'd be one more thing to maintain as we add users...
The ghetto solution that I'm fearing is making a link from $HOME/Maildir to /mail/$LOGNAME...
Thanks for the help...