Accentuated email addresses stored in LDAP

[Andre Rodier]

On 20/03/2018 08:00, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Andre Rodier wrote:
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>> 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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Thank you, Steffen, this is a great link.

I am probably going to keep this attribute, and use base64, for now.

Kind regards,
Andre

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