kolab aliases and distribution lists

Gunnar Wrobel wrobel at pardus.de
Fri Feb 12 17:33:25 CET 2010


Quoting Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh at gcd.ie>:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>
>> >query_filter =
>> >(&(!(kolabDeleteFlag=*))(|(alias=%s)(mail=%s))(!(cn:dn:=external)))
>> >
>> >surely that will match a real email account and anyone who has that alias
>> >set on their account?
>>
>> Well, that is correct :) The limitation I mentioned is only imposed
>> by the web admin. You could modify your LDAP directly (using ldapvi
>> or luma or ...) and set the same alias on different accounts. I
>> currently can't think of a reason why you should not do that :) but
>> I'm sure the webadmin restriction is there for a reason.
>
> I've just given two accounts the same alias here in the web interface and
> it seems to have worked fine.  Have I misunderstood something?  I think I
> tested before and found that sending to that alias would cause the email to
> go to both addresses?

Uh, oh, confirmed. Bug in 2.2.3 :(

>
>> >Perhaps that means authenticated to LDAP and the autocomplete doesn't
>> >authenticate.
>>
>> No I believe "available" means that you may send to it only from
>> your internal network. You can't send to it from outside of the
>> Kolab server. This is a limitation I forgot to mention but if I
>> understood you correctly it should not matter in your specific case.
>> The entry for the distribution list goes into the "cn=internal"
>> branch of your LDAP tree and the only relevant ACL for that would be
>>
>> access to dn="cn=internal,dc=itzcuintli,dc=aztec,dc=intevation,dc=de"
>>         by
>> dn="cn=nobody,cn=internal,dc=itzcuintli,dc=aztec,dc=intevation,dc=de"
>> read
>>         by * search stop
>>
>> So only the "nobody" user has read access here.
>
> I think I understand, though this may a problem for us.  I'll have to
> experiment a little.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
> Gavin
>
>
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