[Kolab-devel] make kolabd more robust

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl>:

> Op Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:50:19 schreef Alain Spineux:
>> The "kolabDeleteflag" avoid kolabd to forget to delete a user.
>> But for the user creation, we have no guaranty no users will not be
>> forgotten by kolabd !
>> The current system is based only on a _transation less_ ldap
>> replication mechanism !
>> This means user could be forgotten !
>>
>> We could have a kolabNewflag that will help kolabd to create mailbox
>> of these "fogotten" users !
>> When a user is created in IMAP, kolabd could simply remove the
>> kolabNewflag key. The key was created
>> a user creation by the kolabgui.
>>
>> When kolabd start or is waked up by slurp (or LDAP sync mechanism),
>> then kolabd could query for
>> kolabDeleteflag or kolabNewflag and update the users accordingly.
>>
>>
>> Maybe the inverse idea could be used too, kolabd search for user not
>> having the kolabCreatedflag, create the mailbox
>> and then add the kolabCreatedflag key to the ldp record !
>> That way the webgui dont need to be chnaged and only kolabd has to
>> manage the kolabCreatedflag.
>
> Would it help to use a different replication mechanism?  See issue 1755 (
> https://www.intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue1755

I think it might help to remove the current kolabDeleteflag. But I  
admit I didn't think this through yet and I also only started playing  
with the code in issue1755 last week.

Good work by the way ;)

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> The only thing for openpkg based kolab is to provide openldap-2.4.   
> After that
> you can switch to syncrepl mode, by changing in parameter in kolab.conf
>
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