dovecot - May 2009 - user_attrs seems not to set 'mail'.

Hi, I am using Dovecot 1.1.13 (from a Debian package). I was having 
problems using
user_attrs to set 'mail' and 'home'. Initially I tried:
   user_attrs = 
uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/

This appeared to set 'home' but not 'mail'. In the debug lot I
see:
   May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X at Y,10.4.4.113): 
user search: base=ou=users,dc=Y scope=subtree filter=(& (mail=X at Y) 
(|(accountStatus=active) (accountStatus=migrate)) ) fields=uid,uid
   May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X at Y,1.1.1.1): 
result: uid(home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/)=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/
   May 12 15:24:40 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER  
30688   X at Y home=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/

Note that 'home' seems to be set on the last line, but not
'mail'. I was
hoping to see 'mail=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/Maildir/'. Next I tried:
   user_attrs = 
=mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/

Now I see:
   May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X at Y,1.1.1.1): user 
search: base=ou=users,dc=Y scope=subtree filter=(& (mail=X at Y) 
(|(accountStatus=active) (accountStatus=migrate)) ) fields=uid
   May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): ldap(X at Y,1.1.1.1): 
result: uid(home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/)=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/
   May 12 15:31:28 alpha dovecot: auth(default): master out: USER  
30712   X at Y home=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/      mail=maildir:~/Maildir/

Now both 'home' and 'mail' are set, which is what I want. This
means the
following lines are not synonymous:
   user_attrs = 
uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/
   user_attrs = 
=mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/

Either I misunderstand the documentation for user_attrs or there is a 
bug. Assuming the former, can somebody please explain what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Ian

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 18:04 +0100, ian at comtek.co.uk
wrote:
> Hi, I am using Dovecot 1.1.13 (from a Debian package). I was having 
> problems using
> user_attrs to set 'mail' and 'home'. Initially I tried:
>    user_attrs = 
>
uid=mail=maildir:/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/
You can't currently use the same LDAP field twice. I guess I could make
it give an error message instead. Hopefully some day this will be
supported though.
> Note that 'home' seems to be set on the last line, but not
'mail'. I was
> hoping to see 'mail=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/Maildir/'. Next I
tried:
>    user_attrs = 
> =mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/
You can also not set "mail" here and instead just set
mail_location=~/Maildir setting.

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> You can't currently use the same LDAP field twice. I guess I could make
> it give an error message instead. Hopefully some day this will be
> supported though.
>   
Ah, okay. An error message would be really useful. We were scratching 
our heads
about that for a while!
>> Note that 'home' seems to be set on the last line, but not
'mail'. I was
>> hoping to see 'mail=/var/mail/virtual/users/uid/Maildir/'. Next
I tried:
>>    user_attrs = 
>> =mail=maildir:~/Maildir/,uid=home=/var/mail/virtual/users/%$/
>>     
>
> You can also not set "mail" here and instead just set
> mail_location=~/Maildir setting.
>   
Yes, in our case that should work.

Thanks,

Ian