a few more questions

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 08:58, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 17:58, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > 4. how do I get the server answer to more than a single domain? how
> > > do I do that with a separate namespace of addresses (virtual domains)
> > > thזt map to the main domain if needed?
> >
> > Completely separated virtual domain aka multidomain are not supported
> > with the upcoming Kolab2, because it is difficult to handle this within
> > the ldap.
> >
> > Currently you can edit the postfix template and use the postfix trick
> > for rewriting addresses or accepting from other domains.
> > It might be possible that someone extends Kolab2 Server for this
> > purpose.
>
> That's not enough, I already tried that (I have several mail domains).
> Cyrus rejects the mail. So to make this work, you need to hack the
> postfix mydomains variable, and do something that I so far did not figure
> out for cyrus.

One possibility would be to rewrite the addresses.

> But as I already told Matt (I think), it would be worthwhile to have
> support for this in Kolab, and not a really difficult thing to do. At
> least not if it's easy enough to hack cyrus to accept it.
>
> I would really love if it would just work that bo at domain1 and bo at domain2
> would be delivered to the same user. It's a PITA to do this by hand for a
> lot of users by using the email aliases.

I agree that it would be a worthwhile addition.
Rewriting this on the postfix level seems the most easiest thing I could think of,
also hacking of lmtp could help here.

> Would it be an idea to have a webpage with kolab hacks? 

Yes we can put stuff in the issue tracker
and also have a howto or hacks or contribution page.

> If someone can
> tell me how to hack cyrus for this, I will definitely write a page with it.

> I can also write a page describing how to add virtual domains to apache on
> it. It's not hard, but it might be a nice addition.
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