cyrus-imap and full ldap support

[Patrice]

ok, I understand now
then , you just have to worry about the ldap
I will do a daily export of the mailboxes.db  and forget it


Thank You
Patrice

Christopher Baron wrote:

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> Patrice wrote:
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>> Thank you for your answer,
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>> my sasl server is working , I can authenticate my users into ldap
>>
>> but if I understand well, the mailboxes.db define user on the imap 
>> server.
>> but when I authenticate  through sasl , I do a connection to ldap , 
>> that is working :)
>>
>> I must create a user into my mailboxes.db and after that , I must 
>> create the user into ldap? , isn't it ?
>>
> well, the way we're doing it the autocreate patch from UoA allows us 
> to not need to manually add users into the mailboxes.db as you say.  
> So we create the user in ldap then their mailboxes.db entry gets created.
>
> I haven't worked deleting out yet.  hah.
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>> Christopher Baron wrote:
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>>> Patrice wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I need to migrate to cyrus-imap.
>>>> actually , I have all my users in an ldap database
>>>
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>>>
>>> As do I
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>>>>
>>>> cyrus-imap uses mailboxes.db to store users
>>>>
>>>> if all my users are in ldap , I must use mailboxes.db ?
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> mailboxes.db is a list of all the mailboxes on the server, as well 
>>> as some other things.  it is not just for authentication, it is also 
>>> for authorization.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>
>>>> and if true, I have to extract all my user id from ldap , to insert 
>>>> them into mailboxes.db ?
>>>>
>>> what you should do is check out the Cyrus SASL project (which is 
>>> necessary anyway) and, specifically, saslauthd.  You can use 
>>> saslauthd to authenticate imap/pop logins against an LDAP directory 
>>> server.
>>>
>>> I have used the University of Athens's patch to cyrus to autocreate 
>>> mailboxes when a message is delivered, relying on the MTA (Postfix) 
>>> to verify the address is legitimate.
>>> I had a few problems with case, but after some interesting debugging 
>>> things I've managed to get a fairly decent system going.
>>>
>>> Check out http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/
>>>
>>> I also strongly suggest that you download both the Cyrus SASL and 
>>> Cyrus IMAP distributions and run throught he documentation with a 
>>> fine tooted comb.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/
>>>
>>> There is also gobs of useful information at the Cyrus WIKI.  
>>> http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WebHome
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope this helps...
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
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