On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 17:26, Claudio Jeker wrote: > 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.
I just discovered that you cannot use the server for outgoing smtp either when you don't have a maildir / mailMessageStore attribute, so this change is indeed more intrusive than I thought. -- -Torgeir
