Thus spake Henning Brauer, on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:11:42PM +0200:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:44:42PM +0100, Jose Celestino wrote:
> > No, I got it. The attributes mailForwardingAddress and
> > mailAlternateAddress derive from the attribute mail and when I do a
> > search (mail=someone@somedomain) it returns all of the entries matching
> > those child attributes also (OpenLdap version 2).
> 
> Uhh? Now I'm confused. You search for mail=anything and the search returns
> anything with
> 
>(|((|(mail=anything)(mailalternateaddress=anything)))(mailforwardingaddress=anything))
> ????
> 
> That's not the way I know LDAP to work. I don't use OpenLDAP 2.x, though.
> 
> -- 
> * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de *
> * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany               *
> Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
> (Dennis Ritchie)

Yep, someone was using an old qmail.schema that defined
mailAlternateAddress and mailForwardingAddress as subs of category mail
and when searching mail it searched all the sub types (OpenLdap 2) and
returned several entries.

My fault, sorry.

-- 
Jose Celestino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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