[Lam-public] LAM & IMAP?

[Olaf Zevenboom <olaf@ar...>]

Dear List,

Recently I stumbled upon this project installed it (dpkg -i stable 2.7 
packages) and found it promising. It seems to be working nicely, however 
some questions did come up:

1. In various docs inc. the Samba ones one is advised to use the 
smbldap-populate script. That one does not include ou=Domain or 
something similar.
I changed LAMs config to meet what had been configured for 
smbldap-polulate and was left with the suggestion to add the ou=Domain 
from LAN. So I did. Eventually I ended up with 2 domains by the same 
name in OpenLDAP. This caused auth issues obviously. So I renamed one 
from MYDOMAIN to MYDOMAIN2 which gives me a workable environment but 
isn't very neat.

Maybe this can be mentioned (preferably with a better solution) in the docs?


2. I have been puzzling about IMAP and wetter it is supported by LAM or not.
If I look at the userinterface I think it is. When taking a look at 
support account types 
(http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/supportedTypes ) there is a 
change it is supported. When I take a peak at the german howto 
(http://lam.sourceforge.net/documentation/lam_de.pdf ) it looks like 
the, by me, desired connection with Cyrus IMAP can be made.
The good news is that sasltestd -s IMAP works fine. After I added the 
user cyrus to the sasldb I can start cyradm and fail to see any 
mailboxes. So it seems I can auth, but no mailboxes.
However I also failed to see where in the code where IMAP accounts can 
be made or rights on private and shared mailboxes can be managed. Even 
in lam-daemon. Now I was confused.  After some searching I found: 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=969246&group_id=73243&atid=537214
Confusion turned to fearing that IMAP is not fully supported.
Can someone share a light on this please?


Thank you in advance and also thanks for what looks like a great tool
Olaf

[Lam-public] LAM & IMAP?

[Olaf Zevenboom <olaf@ar...>]

Dear List,

Recently I stumbled upon this project installed it (dpkg -i stable 2.7 
packages) and found it promising. It seems to be working nicely, however 
some questions did come up:

1. In various docs inc. the Samba ones one is advised to use the 
smbldap-populate script. That one does not include ou=Domain or 
something similar.
I changed LAMs config to meet what had been configured for 
smbldap-polulate and was left with the suggestion to add the ou=Domain 
from LAN. So I did. Eventually I ended up with 2 domains by the same 
name in OpenLDAP. This caused auth issues obviously. So I renamed one 
from MYDOMAIN to MYDOMAIN2 which gives me a workable environment but 
isn't very neat.

Maybe this can be mentioned (preferably with a better solution) in the docs?


2. I have been puzzling about IMAP and wetter it is supported by LAM or not.
If I look at the userinterface I think it is. When taking a look at 
support account types 
(http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/supportedTypes ) there is a 
change it is supported. When I take a peak at the german howto 
(http://lam.sourceforge.net/documentation/lam_de.pdf ) it looks like 
the, by me, desired connection with Cyrus IMAP can be made.
The good news is that sasltestd -s IMAP works fine. After I added the 
user cyrus to the sasldb I can start cyradm and fail to see any 
mailboxes. So it seems I can auth, but no mailboxes.
However I also failed to see where in the code where IMAP accounts can 
be made or rights on private and shared mailboxes can be managed. Even 
in lam-daemon. Now I was confused.  After some searching I found: 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=969246&group_id=73243&atid=537214
Confusion turned to fearing that IMAP is not fully supported.
Can someone share a light on this please?


Thank you in advance and also thanks for what looks like a great tool
Olaf

Re: [Lam-public] LAM & IMAP?

[Roland Gruber <post@ro...>]

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Hi Olaf,

Olaf Zevenboom schrieb:
> 1. In various docs inc. the Samba ones one is advised to use the 
> smbldap-populate script. That one does not include ou=Domain or 
> something similar.
> I changed LAMs config to meet what had been configured for 
> smbldap-polulate and was left with the suggestion to add the ou=Domain 
> from LAN. So I did. Eventually I ended up with 2 domains by the same 
> name in OpenLDAP. This caused auth issues obviously. So I renamed one 
> from MYDOMAIN to MYDOMAIN2 which gives me a workable environment but 
> isn't very neat.
> 
> Maybe this can be mentioned (preferably with a better solution) in the docs?

thanks for the feedback. LAM 2.9.0 will use the LDAP root as default for
new server profiles. This should reduce such problems.
Of course, you can change the LDAP suffix for Samba domains in LAM at
any time. Just remove the "ou=domain".

> 2. I have been puzzling about IMAP and wetter it is supported by LAM or not.
> If I look at the userinterface I think it is. When taking a look at 
> support account types 
> (http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/supportedTypes ) there is a 
> change it is supported. When I take a peak at the german howto 
> (http://lam.sourceforge.net/documentation/lam_de.pdf ) it looks like 
> the, by me, desired connection with Cyrus IMAP can be made.
> The good news is that sasltestd -s IMAP works fine. After I added the 
> user cyrus to the sasldb I can start cyradm and fail to see any 
> mailboxes. So it seems I can auth, but no mailboxes.
> However I also failed to see where in the code where IMAP accounts can 
> be made or rights on private and shared mailboxes can be managed. Even 
> in lam-daemon. Now I was confused.  After some searching I found: 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=969246&group_id=73243&atid=537214
> Confusion turned to fearing that IMAP is not fully supported.
> Can someone share a light on this please?

Sorry, there is no IMAP support in LAM yet. There is also no such note
on http://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/supportedTypes.
IMAP support was requested as feature enhancement but is not yet
implemented.
IMAP management is not the main scope of LAM. Therefore, it has little
priority. However, if somebody sponsors the development... :)


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Roland Gruber


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