[Dovecot] Shared folders and LDAP?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Gavin Henry wrote:
> <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.

This isn't specific to either namespaces or LDAP. You can override any
setting with any userdb (that's documented,
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields). The internal names
for namespace settings aren't documented anywhere though, and they're
going to change in Dovecot v2.0.

> 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.

First I've heard. :)
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