On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:58:02PM +0200, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > Claudio Jeker wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:16:16PM +0200, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > > > >>Claudio Jeker wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:08:20PM +0200, Torgeir Veimo wrote: > >>> > >>>No, this is not a bug. It's more a admin problem. > >>>The -DAUTOMAILDIRMAKE option just enables the automatic creation of > >>>missing > >>>Maildir structures on delivery and not the creation of homedirs. > >>>For that use -DAUTOHOMEDIRMAKE option and a dirmaker script. > >>> > >>>If you create User without a homedir and do not enable AUTOHOMEDIRMAKE > >>>qmail-ldap will always fail. > >>>So eitehr you enable the auto homdir creation feature or you do not > >>>specify a mailmessagestore (qmail uses the ~alias as home). > >> > >>At least it creates some admin headaches. > >> > >>We have a system where users can toggle between forwarding or local > >>storage. I would prefer just changing the deliverymode attribute. > >> > >>Like it is now, I have to remove the forwardingAddress when the user > >>changes to local delivery (since the existance of mailForwarding address > >>mandates forward in any case), and remove the mailMessageStore attribute > >>when changing to forwarding. In java code this adds up to a lot of > >>ModifyAttribute calls and error checking. > >> > > > > > >No. In your case just compile a qmail-ldap vewrsion with autohomedirmake > >option enabled and a dirmaker script. Then if a homedir does not exist the > >homedir will be created (even if forwardonly is set). > >You need only to set/unset mailForwardingAddress to toggle the behaviour. > > Ok. I still find it a bit strange to unset the mailForwardingAddress to > toggle to localdelivery. The user will still store the forwarding > address in his profile, so to unset mailForwardingAddress, I need to > copy it to some other attribute. > > I just wish there was a deliveryMode=localdeliveryonly, so that I didn't > have to remove mailForwardingAttribute, and that > deliveryMode=forwardOnly didn't even check mailMessageStore attribute. > This would be much more logical in my view. The latter shouldn't be a > problem to make default, since it was like this in qmail-ldap before > 20020501a (to my knowledge), and the former would be possible to > introduce by using a localdeliveryonly value. > > A trick would be to prefix disabled mailForwardinAddresses and ProgramDeliveries with a "#". Then the line/attribute would be ignored.
-- :wq Claudio
