[Kolab-devel] Kolab Server 2.1 Feature Roadmap

[Jose Figueras]

El mar, 05-07-2005 a las 17:23, Steffen Hansen escribió:
> Hi. Here's a small heads-up on current Kolab server development:
> 
> We've been contracted by Khamsa SA (http://www.khamsa.net) to add 
> multidomain support to Kolab2. 

Great.

> Since this is a much requested feature, maybe we should release a 
> Kolab2.1 with just this new feature. What do you think?

+1

> I will add support for multiple domains (accept mail for more 
> than one domain and have accounts in different domains) and a new class 
> of maintainers that are restricted to maintaining users within a fixed 
> set of domains within the limits of what we can do with LDAP ACLs. The 
> implementation is going to be an intermediate solution that stays 
> compatible with the Kolab2.0 LDAP schema.
> 
> A cleaner (and not Kolab2-compatible) implementation is probably not 
> going to show up before Kolab3 where we're going to change the LDAP 
> structure to have subtrees for each domain etc.

Why to use LDAP subtrees? Perhaps it's a stupid idea (I'm not an LDAP
expert) but, can't you use independent LDAP databases? (one LDAP
database per domain).

Regards