[Dovecot] Dovecot+LDAP lda problem

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Dec 10 09:22:02 EET 2013


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On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Zeljko Culek wrote:

> I need some help with Dovecot+LDAP config and local delivery.
>
> We're using Dovecot 2.0.9 on Centos 6.4. Before, we used Qmail with the same 
> LDAP. Our LDAP accounts have the attribute
>
> deliveryMode
>
> which we used for mailing lists (OK, they are in fact mailing groups rather 
> than lists). When the attribute is set to
>
> deliveryMode = nolocal
>
> Qmail did not deliver mail to the list mailbox, only to the accounts on the 
> list/group.

So, there are multiple recipients per mail group? Or can the recipient be 
external?

> Now with Dovecot(+postfix) I can't achieve the same behaviour. Can Dovecot be 
> set up not to deliver the mail to the list mailbox if the list has the 
> attribute deliveryMode = nolocal?
>
> This is my /etc/dovecot/conf.d/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
> hosts = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> auth_bind = yes
> dn = cn=admin,dc=nth,dc=ch
> dnpass = xxxxxxxxxx
> ldap_version = 3
> base = dc=nth,dc=ch
> #deref = always
> scope = subtree
> user_attrs = mail=user
> user_filter = 
> (|(&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(mail=%u))(|(mailAlternateAddress=%u)))
> pass_attrs = uid=user
> pass_filter = 
> (&(objectclass=inetOrgPerson)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u)))
> default_pass_scheme = CRYPT
>
> Basicaly, I want to make check:
> if deliveryMode=nolocal > do not deliver to mail=some.mail at tld.com (only to 
> mailForwardingAddress)
> else deliver normally

If my above statement is true, this is the job of postfix to split the 
delivery into all recipients, possibly sending the message off the host. 
As it was with qmail.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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