[Dovecot] Shared folders and LDAP?

[Gavin Henry]

<quote who="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.

Ah, ok. Thanks.

>> 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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