Accentuated email addresses stored in LDAP

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Andre Rodier wrote:

> In fact, I am using the otherMailBox attribute, from the standard OpenLDAP 
> distribution, which is also IA5String.
>
> - Is there any way in Dovecot to encode the fields in base 64, to send 
> queries? as the query is "eq", this would be enough, I think.

Check out: https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables?highlight=(base64)

However, I never used this modifier and Aki pointed out, that UTF8 
usernames are not (100%) supported, yet.

> - Or is the LDAP server is supposed to store attributes as UTF8, and in this 
> case, how to configure it that way?

To achieve this, you must/can extend the schema with your own attribute 
that uses:

https://www.ldap.com/understanding-ldap-schema

"Directory String

"The directory string syntax is basically a catch-all syntax for UTF-8 
strings. It allows values with this syntax to have any combination of one 
or more UTF-8 characters (empty directory string values are not allowed, 
although some directory servers ignore this constraint).

"The directory string syntax is defined in RFC 4517 section 3.3.6, and has 
an OID of "1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15"."

Otherwise, you could _misuse_ an exiting attribute of this type unused in 
your directory otherwise.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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