Re: LDAP attribute format
Simon Horman <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:15:48PM +0000, Jim Tyrrell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just been looking at using perdition as part of a mail migration
> between multiple POP3 servers and have it working well with LDAP.
>
> At the moment I have it configured to lookup against the domain part of
> the user login and have temporarily added the following attribute to the
> domain object in LDAP:
>
> mailhost=192.168.10.81
>
> That works, but I would like to use an existing attribute that already
> exists and wouldnt require manually editing the LDAP object everytime a
> domain was updated. The problem is this attribute is in the format of:
>
> mailtransport=nexthop:[mda-clusterX.domain.com]
>
> So my query is returning "nexthop:[mdaX.domain.com]". Is there anyway
> to get ldap/perdition to retrieve the part of the result thats in the []
> brackets? If I could use that part of the LDAP attribute I would only
> need to add an entry to the hosts file so that it would use the POP3
> server that corresponds with the Mail Delivery server in that attribute?
>
> If theres a trick to accimplish that it would save me alot of work. :)
Hi Jim,
I don't believe that is possible to using a configuration "trick".
Though I would be more than happy to hear details of how you would see
such a thing working - it sounds like a feature worth adding.
Alternatively it would be a fairly trivial modification ("hack" :-) to
the source code just to handle the case you have.
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