Question wrt ldapimport/imapsync

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2005 13:45 schrieb T. Ribbrock:
> I'm currently preparing some scripts to migrate our users from our SuSE
> Linux OpenXchange (SLOX) server to kolab (2.0.1) [0]. Fortunately, some
> kind soul has left some pointers about migrating account data via LDAP in
> the Wiki: http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Ldapimport
>
> The first trials were very promising (it really looks as if I can
> migrate the account data and mail fully automated - users will only need
> to transfer agenda data themselves), but I'm left with one question:
>
> The Wiki-article shows how to make a new user in kolab via LDAP. It
> states, however, that "When adding new E-Mail users you will have to
> restart the whole kolab2-system cause otherwise the E-Mail-Mailboxes
> won't be created (whether IMAP nor POP3) !"
>
> During my trials, however, I found that the IMAP INBOX folder was created
> just fine for any user I added via LDAP and a subsequent "imapsync" run
> worked without a hitch.
>
> Hence the question: Do I or don't I need to restart all or some of the
> kolab2-system after I add a user using LDAP? 

No.
At least you should not need to. It would be a bug.

Technically the Kolab Server Daemon (kolabd) is registered
as a replication target of openldap and will notice changes in the ldap
and act on them without restart.
We had a report once about this mechanism not working when 
a lot of accounts were created in one rush, but we could not reproduce this.
So if you can reproduce a case where you must restart kolabd to really 
get stuff done, please file a bug.

 
> [0] yes, I do intend to make a new Wiki-article for that once I have it 
>     working... ;-)

Thanks!