Re: mailfront imapfront-auth with dovecot 1.2.16 : SUCCESS

For the benefit of others,  I will just update the list members as 
below.  Sorry in advance if my posting pissed off anyone (if any).

Why version 2 needs -O -o mail_location=... ... options?  See:

http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-November/054780.html

> If v1.2.16 not support the options? I haven't test that in depth but
> mostly will not. I asked Timo and still waiting for reply. If v1 not
> supporting those options, a wrapper is needed.

Already tested.  Their v1.2.16 not support those options and has been 
confirmed by Timo from dovecot.org (thanks to Timo for the 
confirmation/reply):

http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2010-November/054784.html

> So I guess a wrapper is needed. I need a generic imapd/run script which
> support both dovecot versions (v1 and v2) and courier-imap. If just for
> a specific imap server like dovecot v2 then wrapper not needed like what
> you stated.
>
> Wrapper as below to support dovecot v1 and v2:

Updated sh wrapper to support v1 and v2 and also see whether $MAIL is 
prefixed with maildir or mbox before modifying $MAIL accordingly.  This 
wrapper also check $MAIL to see whether it is a directory to assume it 
is maildir or otherwise assume it is mbox:
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#!/bin/sh

DOVECOTIMAPOPTIONS=""
if [ -n "$MAIL" ] ; then
     # test to see whether maildir or mbox is prefixed in $MAIL
     checkmaildir=`grep -E '^maildir:' $MAIL | grep -v grep`
     checkmbox=`grep -E '^mbox:' $MAIL | grep -v grep`
     if [ ! -n "$checkmaildir" ] && [ ! -n "$checkmbox" ] ; then
	# if mailbox is a directory, assume it is maildir
	# otherwise assume it is mbox
	if [ -d "$MAIL" ] ; then
	    export MAIL=maildir:`echo $MAIL | sed 's@:@::@g'`
	else
	    export MAIL=mbox:`echo $MAIL | sed 's@:@::@g'`
	fi
     fi
     # we need to know dovecot is v1 or v2
     # as v1 is not supporting the options
     # -O -o mail_location=... ...
     if [ -x "/usr/sbin/dovecot" ] ; then
	dovecotversion=`/usr/sbin/dovecot --version | cut -f1 -d '.'`
	if [ "x$dovecotversion" == "x2" ] ; then
	    DOVECOTIMAPOPTIONS="-O -o mail_location=$MAIL"
	fi
     fi
fi
exec "$@" $DOVECOTIMAPOPTIONS
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My C wrapper also updated and can be found at:

http://choon.net/mailfront-imapfront-auth-dovecot.php

Hopefully the above information is useful to someone ;)

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon