[Dovecot] Quotas from LDAP
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 23 01:14:17 EET 2011
On 23.2.2011, at 0.38, Sven Hartge wrote:
>>> and what does %$ mean?
>
>> It's the value of quotaBytes LDAP attribute. So the idea is that you have:
>
>> ldap-attribute-name=dovecot-setting-name=dovecot-setting-value
>
> So, %$ ist always the value of the referenced attribute?
Yeah.
> What if there
> are multiple values, by accident or by design?
Won't work right now.
>> From the above I read, I can not have the storage size _and_ the max
> number of message in two LDAP attributes, right? Because I cannot import
> two different attributes into the same dovecot-setting-name.
>
> This would have to look like
>
> user_attrs = homeDirectory=home,quotaBytes,quotaMessages=quota_rule=*:bytes=%$:messages=%$
>
> which of course does not work (I think).
You'll get quotaBytes set to quotaBytes's value, which won' t do anything useful. %$ gets expanded to quotaMessages's value in both cases.
>> In some future version hopefully I'll make this simpler.
>
> Yeah, the current "backward" notation is mighty confusing, at least for
> me.
>
> I would have expected something like
>
> user_attrs = home=homeDirectory,quota_rule=*:bytes=quotaBytes
>
> or
>
> user_attrs = home=homeDirectory,quota_rule=quotaRule
>
> (if I have the complete quota_rule in an attribute instead of just the
> number)
I was planning on something like:
user_attrs {
home = %{homeDirectory}
quota_rule = *:bytes=%{quotaBytes}
}
And of course you would be able to mix and match the %{whatever-ldap-value} attributes.
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