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List:       openldap-technical
Subject:    Re: email aliases - extended version
From:       Howard Chu <hyc () symas ! com>
Date:       2023-11-01 17:38:54
Message-ID: c3994662-908b-e45a-9774-aedef82eb421 () symas ! com
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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/thread/MF457XILOV3ACZOGWA3VBUOAB4RDHHVA/#MF457XILOV3ACZOGWA3VBUOAB4RDHHVA
>  https://lists.openldap.org/hyperkitty/list/openldap-technical@openldap.org/message/P4AF6OZTPTFBGT6S7DQV5EQVWXZ5ZPTF/
>  
> Thanks for any references or help
> Chris
> 


-- 
  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/


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