On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
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> As it turns out, the "uid" attribute was missing from the entry.
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> Is there a reason why the "uid" attribute is required?
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Yes and no. First UID is used for $USER in qmail-local and for pop3/IMAP
access. Because it is possible to have forwardonly accounts just with
mail, uid and mailforwardingaddress set, it would make sense to remove uid
and use "alias" as $USER.
I started once to write some code to support forwardonly accounts but as
it seems nobody was interested in it till now and so nobody has
discovered, that there are some issues with this support.
Note: for delivery to mail{dir|file} and/or programdelivery you need to
set the uid. THis shouldn't hurt you to much and it gives a reasonable
environment to qmail-local, which is IMHO more important then the few
bytes saved in the ldap db.
I will try to fix the issues with forwardonly accounts
for the next release.
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:wq Claudio
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