Am Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:31:44 +0100 schrieb Michael Ströder michael@stroeder.com:
Leander Schäfer wrote:
I would rather add mailUid and mailGid to my schema to keep it as low weight as possible. But it would still not make me happy since this mailUid and mailGid would be exactly the very same as in uidNumber of the user the ou=mail container with the accounts belongs to. Is there maybe a way of implementing a symbloic link? Something like
Anyway you have to maintain sort of a connection from your mailbox to your system user entry. When having a DN reference (e.g. 'seeAlso') a LDAP client could use the deref control to retrieve attributes from referenced entries. But you would need to convince the dovecot developers to make use of it.
[...] For documentation of deref control see https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masarati-ldap-deref-00 This document provides some simple examples.
-Dieter