Re: attribute to store system mailbox value
Nick Milas wrote:
On 19/8/2013 6:20 μμ, Zeus Panchenko wrote:
> may somebody to recommend the attribute to store path to system mailbox,
> among attributes of schema files shipped with openldap,
>
> "system mailbox" is the path to mbox format file or maildir directory
> where MDA (depends on MDA configuration) stores received mail messages
>
> so, to not to add new LDAP object and attribute definition, I'd like to
> know, may be close by function attribute already exists?
>
I suggest using a specialized schema for such use. Maybe you would want
to read through this thread:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201202/msg00147.html
I've faced a lot of problems until I decided to follow the approach
described in that thread, i.e. a custom schema (with our own OIDs) based
on laser and qmail-ldap schemas.
IMHO there is a lack of a good ldap mail schema to cover a wide range of
user needs out-of-the-box.
Storing site-local information inside a distributed database strikes me as a
bit counter-intuitive. But if your MDAs have distributed access to these
mailboxes, then the most natural solution would be to use an attribute
containing a URL.
Our usual approach, since LDAP lacks an actual URL attribute syntax, is to
define attributes that inherit from the labeledURI attributetype for these
purposes.
--
-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/