Chris Vogel wrote:

Hi,

I moved from a mailserver using exim/mysql to one based on postfix/ldap and found a question I couldn't answer by searching:

Is there a way to put "email aliases like I'm used to" into the directory?

These questions really depend on Postfix. we don't define the LDAP schema they use nor how they use it, they do.

By "email aliases like I'm used to" I mean 1-m aliases with the following properties:

• An email received for an alias address is send to multiple maildrops and/or email addresses

Additinally I'd like to add information about ownership/permissions:

• An alias has got one or more owner(s) who

- are able to edit the list of receivers         - are allowed to delete the alias         - change permission on it like described below

• An alias has properties that describe the permission local receivers have

(for all of the local receivers or every single local):         - its open to subscription by every uid (user on the system) or only the owners are           allowed to add new receivers         - delete oneself from the list of receivers         - allowed to use the alias address as email sender for emails delivered by the account

I know this sounds like mailinglist, but most of that has been possible in exim using files and file permissions or values in a mysql database. A listmanager would add some interface for managing this, but that is not what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for an existing standard or quasi-official way on how to represent this in the directory before inventing the wheel a second time.

Along my way I stumbled over this two messages on the list which seem to point in a similar direction:

https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/t... https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/m...

Thanks for any references or help Chris