[Dovecot] Shared folders and LDAP?

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Thu Jul 19 12:17:34 EEST 2007


<quote who="Timo Sirainen">
> On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 07:56 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Is it possible to store shared folder lists in an LDAP Directory along
>> with your virtual users?
>
> You could have LDAP return namespaces. First define a private namespace
> in dovecot.conf, and then return another from LDAP. You'd have to return
> fields like:
>
> namespace_2=maildir:/shared/boxes
> namespace_2_prefix=Shared/
>
> Or you could just configure the second namespace in dovecot.conf as well
> and just override the location with namespace_2.

Sounds all good, but I can't find any info about LDAP lookups for
namespaces on the wiki.

Is this new in 1.0.2?

If this is a often requested feature, should we do a dovecot.schema file
for these kind of things. I'd be willing to develop/discuss one and
contribute it.

Gavin.

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