[Kolab-devel] Modifying the LDAP user representation for a distributed Kolab server system?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:

> * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20080729 14:05]:
>> So let me suggest an alternative by using the existing
>> "kolabHomeserver" attribute. Would it be okay to extend its syntax to
>> allow for several settings like:
>> 
>>   "example.org"
>>   "MTA:smtp.example.org"
>>   "IMAP:imap.example.org"
>>   "FreeBusy:fb.example.org"
>> 
>> The default would be the entry without "prefix:" but it would be
>> possible to provide redirects for specific services.
>> 
>> I don't suggest to directly add support for this in the various Kolab
>> services we currently have as I don't see this as urgent. But if we
>> define the syntax this way we could at least start supporting this for
>> the more common splitted Kolab server setups.
>> 
>> If I consider the point Bernhard mentioned recently concerning
>> splitted IMAP storage per user it might also make sense to have a
>> syntax like
>> 
>>   "imap://USER:PASS@SERVER"
>
> Do not make it look like URLs, otherwise you'll get confusion when
> storing URLs, e.g. imap://user:pass@server vs. imaps://user:pass@server
> I'd suggest somethink like IMAP=imap://... if you want to have URLs.

Yup. This was actually a very rough initial idea and I think it
something we probably can't store in kolabHomeserver anyhow. Probably
a topic for Kolab3 stuff.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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