qmailGroup functionality is one of the coolest new features in the new
patch. (I think we forgot to mention it in the QLDAPNEWS file).
How does it look?
There are three kinds of group members:
- DN members, you put in the DN of the member and it's email address
is irrelevant (as long as it has one)
- RFC822 members, plain and simple email addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
- Filter members, very cool and dangerous; Put any valid ldap filter
string in here and it will explode the mail to all found email
addresses; Be careful not to create loops!
You have four ways of controlling who can post to the group:
- no limit, just explode to all members
- members only, as the name says; only members are allowed (based
on envelope sender, so not very secure, everybody can fake that)
- sender confirm, sender has to confirm submission and return address
like DJBs qmail-secretary
- moderated, moderator(s) have to accept every message; there are
DN and RFC822 moderators
If more than one check enabled, then sender confirm is first, members
only second and moderator third. After that it goes to the group.
As a bonus you can put your own text for the sender confirm and
moderator messages with same mail magic as in qmail-reply.
You need to have the dash-ext stuff enabled in qmail-ldap and you have
to set up a 'mail' and 'mailAlternateAddress' like this:
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailAlternateAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you don't do that, all the sender confirm and moderator functionality
(and bounce handling) will be lost.
A full qmailGroup ldap object looks like this:
dn: uid=mygroup,dc=diavolezza,dc=nrg4u,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: qmailUser
objectClass: qmailGroup
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
sn: Group
cn: Group
uid: group
mailMessageStore: /scratch/group
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailAlternateAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
membersonly: TRUE
senderconfirm: TRUE
rfc822member: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rfc822member: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dnmember: uid=user1,dc=diavolezza,dc=nrg4u,dc=com
dnmember: cn=andre,dc=diavolezza,dc=nrg4u,dc=com
filtermember: (&(!(objectclass=qmailGroup))([EMAIL PROTECTED]))
dnmoderator: cn=user2,dc=diavolezza,dc=nrg4u,dc=com
dnmoderator: uid=user3,dc=diavolezza,dc=nrg4u,dc=com
rfc822moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
confirmtext: Do you really want to post to this group, you fruitcake?
moderatortext: Hello, hello!? Shall we proceed and send this out?
Enjoy!
--
Andre
