Jay, I'm using Courier webmail.
I would love to know how to configure this in Courier webmail, but it doesn't look that flexible so far. Any suggestions from the list as regards how to do this would be wonderful. _________________________________ Thorne Lawler Senior Systems Administrator t: +61 3 8329 2026 f: +61 3 9326 7588 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microlistics A Dawson Group Company www.microlistics.com.au _________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jay Lee > Sent: Friday, 9 April 2004 12:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [courier-users] LDAP usernames and mail addresses > > > What WebMail are you using? We have the same scenario. I have Courier > query on UID, then on a user's first login to Squirrelmail, a plugin > called retrieveuserdata is run which does an LDAP query against that UID > and retrieves their mail and fullname attributes to use in the From: field > for outgoing messages. With Squirrelmail, I have the ability to allow > users to change either of these if they wish, or lock both down, or allow > only fullname changes (some user's don't like their mail coming from > William T. Smith, they'd prefer Billy, they can change that but not the > email address). So anyways, your webmail should be more flexible in > allowing you to at least modify the From: address if not automatically > query the LDAP for the proper address. > > Jay > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jay Lee > Network / Systems Administrator > Information Technology Dept. > Philadelphia Biblical University > Langhorne, PA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Thorne Lawler said: > > Hi again folks, > > > > I am having difficulties getting Courier to handle LDAP > accounts with the > > kind of semantics I'd like: I have a large pre-existing LDAP which it > > would > > be very, very difficult to modify all the users in. I am going to use > > ldapaliasd, for sure, but I can'treally change the user data at this > > point. > > > > The user data for a typical user looks like the following: > > > > dn: uid=wendys, ou=People, dc=microlistics,dc=com,dc=au > > mobile: 0412 521 181 > > o: Dawson Consulting > > sn: Smith > > telephoneNumber: 03 8329 2011 > > userPassword: [crypted string here] > > loginShell: /bin/ksh > > uidNumber: 1080 > > gidNumber: 120 > > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > shadowFlag: 0 > > uid: wendys > > objectClass: posixAccount > > objectClass: shadowAccount > > objectClass: account > > objectClass: top > > objectClass: inetOrgPerson > > objectClass: organizationalPerson > > objectClass: person > > gecos: Wendy Smith,,, > > shadowLastChange: 0 > > cn: Wendy Smith > > homeDirectory: /export/home/wendys > > > > For added information, my default domain is currently set to > > "microlistics.com.au". > > We have one set of users here, all with unique uids, but we have half a > > dozen domains. > > > > The difficulty that I'm having is as follows: > > > > If I configure authldaprc to use "mail" as the search token, then try to > > use > > basic UNIX tools like 'mail', courier fails to send the message because > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doesn't exist. It also fails to > deliver local > > email sent by things like cron. I also get a lot fo grief from the users > > I've trialled on webmail so far because they don't want to enter their > > whole > > email address into the webmail login page, which is fair > enough: they have > > a > > userid already for logging into things. > > > > If I configure authldaprc to use "uid" as the search token, webmail > > assumes > > that everyone's email address is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (which is > > incorrect), and it can't find any of the real email addresses > we typically > > use, which are all of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I have come up with several partial solutions which involve > entering very > > large tables of extra aliases to tell courier how to map mail > addresses to > > uids or vice versa, but none of them solve all of the problems listed > > above, > > and they all break the basic poin of having an LDAP, anmely > that it should > > be the only store you need for per-user directory information. > > > > What I would like to wind up with should be fairly obvious: > > Users log in to webmail and IMAP with their username (uid). > > Webmail gets the correct value for a users email address from the LDAP > > (mail). > > Email is correctly delivered into $HOME/Maildir if it is sent to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AND if it is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > and > > no further aliases are needed to achieve this. > > > > Can anyone suggest how this might be possible? If not, how about a good > > compromise? > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > _________________________________ > > Thorne Lawler > > Senior Systems Administrator > > > > t: +61 3 8329 2026 > > f: +61 3 9326 7588 > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Microlistics > > A Dawson Group Company > > www.microlistics.com.au > > _________________________________ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > > GenToo technologies. 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