Hi.
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Is there a way to mimic Postfix' "table search order" in Dovecot's LDAP configuration of pass_filter/user_filter?
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Just to quote the http://www.postfix.org/virtual.8.html:
TABLE SEARCH ORDER
(...)
The search order is as follows. The search stops upon the first successful lookup.
(...)
o The user@domain.tld address, without address exten-
sion, is looked up next.
o Finally, the recipient @domain is looked up.Basicaly this allows to have separate users assigned addresses like j.doe@example.com (first account), j.smith@example.com (second account) and at the same time to have a "catch all" anything@example.com mailbox (for the administrator e.g.).
What do I need it for? To have dovecot-lda working. Why? I want Sieve :)
The test data may look as follows:
account #1:
- mail: j.doe@example.com
- mailAlternateAddress: j.c.doe@example.com
account #2:
- mail: j.smith@example.com
- mailAlternateAddress: j.t.smith@example.com
account #3 (administrator):
- mail: bofh@example.com
- mailAlternateAddress: @example.com (means - anything possible)
The filter I used is (more or less - for both pass_filter and user_filter):
(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=@%d))
Just for testing purposes I've stripped off some irrelevant data (like checking if the account is active), since that made the filter about 140 characters long ;)
The trouble is when there're both a "catch all" and a true account that are linked to different accounts. As an example, if I try to send mail to "j.doe@example.com" I receive:
dovecot: auth(default): ldap(j.doe@example.com): Multiple replies found for user
Which is of course true, since the filter returns "account #2" and "account #3".
What I'd like to get? I'd like to set the filter to:
(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u))
Where "%u" is expanded to "j.doe@example.com" during the first run
Then, if dovecot can't find any user that would match this literaly it should retry the search operation, but now with "@example.com" as the "%u".
I've tried to fiddle with the filter itself, but I see any reasonable way of doing it. I don't even know if it is possible at all.
Could anyone give me a hint? Or maybe it's already on someone's whish list?
Some final info.
- I've followed the examples on dovecot.org website:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA#head-dacb9b9a1f19c3ea86bb6f8caa3d64e3ddad9ef8
- Here's the dovecot's master.conf entry:
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient}
Best regards! Pawel Sawicki