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List:       webmin-l
Subject:    Re: [webmin-l] LDAP Users and Groups - IMAP Quota field
From:       Murray Trainer <mtrainer () central-data ! net>
Date:       2006-01-31 6:10:50
Message-ID: 1138687850.15858.42.camel () vserver ! central-data ! net
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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:16, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 30/Jan/2006 19:32 Murray Trainer wrote ..
> > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 18:49, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 18:19, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:24, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 16:11, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 18:25, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Jamie,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Just setting up the latest version of the module.  We haven't
> > used IMAP
> > > > > > > quotas yet.  I want a default Cyrus quota of 1GB for new users
> > - what
> > > > > > > format(s) do I enter that in the IMAP quota field - Bytes ,MB,
> > GB? 
> > > > > > > Maybe which ever one(s) it is could be put in brackets - eg.
> > Default
> > > > > > > quota for new Cyrus users (MB).
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I am not 100% sure actually, as that value is just passed directly
> > to
> > > > > > the IMAP server via an IMAP command. However, I would guess that
> > the
> > > > > > size is in the bytes.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > As you might guess from looking at the module, I don't run a Cyrus
> > IMAP
> > > > > > server myself, so those parts of it that deal with IMAP are not
> > too well
> > > > > > tested :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > I just noticed that the Cyrus IMAP Server module manages Cyrus mailbox
> > > > > quotas - it uses Kb.  I will let you know if I figure out what your
> > > > > modules uses.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Murray
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Jamie,
> > > > 
> > > > Just confirmed your module creates IMAP quotas in Kb. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks ..
> > > 
> > > > It would be a useful for our company to have a quota field appear in
> > the
> > > > LDAP Users module containing the user's current quota so we can give
> > > > them a larger one than the default if required.
> > > 
> > > That would be nice .. but I don't know which IMAP command to use to
> > > query the current quota. In fact, I don't think there is one ..
> > > 
> > >  - Jamie
> > 
> > Hi Jamie,
> > 
> > Despite their being an ability to manage IMAP quotas in the Cyrus IMAP
> > Server module, we would still like to have a hard-coded IMAP quota field
> > in the LDAP User's and groups module. Otherwise it will be a two step
> > process for us to create users with IMAP quotas other than the default.
> > 
> > On a related issue, we are using a few custom LDAP fields in the LDAP
> > Users module but these fields would be much more useful if it was
> > possible for the post user-creation script to directly access the values
> > entered into these fields.  It would be useful to be able to specify a
> > variable for a custom LDAP field that is exported to the post
> > user-creation script like all the USERADMIN_* ones.  Eg. a custom LDAP
> > field could be described as below in the module config as
> > 
> > variable	description	$USERADMIN_CUSTOM_VAR1
> > 
> > and the module could parse out the $USERADMIN string if it finds one and
> > to set the variable to the content of the field.  If the field had
> > multiple values then it would be up to our post-user creation script to
> > parse out each value.  This would make the module much more flexible for
> > us and less likely to need more fields added to the module in the
> > future.  You may still want to add hard-coded fields in the future for
> > attributes that all LDAP accounts are likely to need.  
> > 
> > Hope you think these suggested improvements have some merit.
> 
> That is a good suggestion .. I will have the module set the environment
> variables USERADMIN_LDAP_XXX=yyyy , where XXX is an LDAP attribute for the
> modified user, and yyyy is the value.
> 
>  - Jamie

Hi Jamie,

Great - please send me the new script to test when you reckon you have
it working.  

Thanks

Murray



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