[Kroupware] Custom UID

[Henning Holtschneider]

--On Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 11:08 -0700 Christopher Lewis <> wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  I'll look for your patch, since I didn't notice it
> before.  It's nice that all this information is still there, even if it
> isn't  working right now.  As far as your 500+ users go, all I can say is

I'm still struggling with the code and how everything works together. I 
haven't worked with Cyrus IMAP before and I have no experience with 
LDAP-enabled Postfix systems. Cyrus IMAP also seems to be poorly documented.

I think I reverted everything back to the old behaviour in the kolab script 
and create_user.php. Please see the attached patch for details.

However, I still don't get incoming mail delivered to the right mailbox. 
The  virtual map works correctly but the lmtp process is unable to deliver 
an incoming message to the maildrop (the uid is "aa", the email address 
"aa.aa at domain.tld"):

Jun 20 19:19:07 mail <info> postfix/lmtp[14044]: 3607DB3A73: 
to=<aa at domain.tld>, orig_to=<aa.aa at domain.tld>, relay=/kolab/var/kola
b/lmtp[/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp], delay=13, status=bounced (host 
/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp[/kolab/var/kolab/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox unknown. 
Either
there is no mailbox associated with this 550-name or you do not have 
authorization to see it. 550 5.1.1 User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO comm
and))

> Since I'm not really a programmer (only work with VB and Access for now),
> I  guess I don't really understand why the multi-domain is so difficult
> to  implement with user defined UID's.  Okay, I also don't know anything

If you have multiple domains, e.g. domain1.tld and domain2.tld and you have 
two people with the same name, e.g. "Peter Miller", they would have two 
unique email addresses (peter.miller at domain1.tld and 
peter.miller at domain2.tld). How do you pick the username, especially if you 
want to auto-create the UID? If you use the email address as the UID, you 
don't need any logic in your software for this step because the email 
address always has to be unique. Apart from that, administration becomes 
easier because you don't have to look up the UID of a user if you want to 
change mailbox parameters.

hh