Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
On May 18, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Thank you for that info. Do you mind posting the relevant portions of your Postfix config? main.cf: .... virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail virtual_mailbox_domains = <all your external / internal domains here> virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:/etc/postfix/maps/ldap-virtual.cf virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:8 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/maps/virtual-aliases .... ##EOF
ldap-virtual.cf: server_host = localhost search_base = ou=People,dc=amfeslan,dc=local query_filter = (&(mail=%s)) result_attribute = mail result_format = /%d/%u/ version = 3
The ldap-virtual settings look a little odd - but I'm rather proud of my gimmick. You look for the mail address matching the sender (mail = %s). Return that same address - but format it as domain/user.
Append it to /var/mail and there it is!virtual-aliases is a simple file for me - I haven't settled on an LDAP implentation for aliases yet I'm satisfied with. I'm using ldap-account-manager for adminstration, and there's no explicit provision for aliases within LAM or the base schemas used.
I just asked Pascal as well how he gets around Postfix asking for mailacceptinggeneralid in order to allow messages to be accepted. How do you get around that? Dovecot is working fine but I can't get Postfix to accept messages because it keeps trying to find mailacceptinggeneralid.
Bryan
This is a problem in basic understanding of Postfix's (or just about any LDAP enabled program, for that matter) LDAP handling. The docs reference mailacceptinggeneralid in the examples (and I still don't know what LDAP schema Wietse may have pulled that from) - and it is a default
- but YOU explicitly tell Postfix how to use your LDAP configuration.
If you look at my files, the virtual_mailbox_maps parameter specifies a
file - which I created. That file tells Postfix exactly how to work
with LDAP. You can see the query is searching the LDAP "mail" field,
and returns the value of the "mail" field in a particular format.
Nowhere in my query_filter and result_attribute do you see
mailacceptinggeneralid - so I assume you didn't implement my sample config.
If Dovecot is now using your LDAP properly, we're probably getting
off-topic now and you should continue this on the Postfix mailing list.
If you want to contact me directly I will try to help you as well.
-- Daniel