Re: [SM-PLUGINS] New Plugin: MaildropFilter

[Marcio M. <mm...@su...>]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:12:03 -0500 (CDT)
"Jon stroud" <acc...@bs...> wrote:

> You will still need to use FTP or something similar if you are using
> maildrop.  My maildrop/procmail(Serverside Filters) plugin can be very
> easily modified to support your configuration.  only one simple
> function needs to be written which returns the name of the user
> account who owns the virtual users.
> 
> If you wanna take a look, the function is in backend.php in the Server
> Side Filters plugin.  Otherwise, give me some details, and I can code
> this rather quickly.

There is no need to read which is the user who owns the virtual users,
it is usually the same for all accounts, and thus can be set on a config
file.

Assume the following:

- One user owns all virtual maildirs, its username and password to use
with ftp will be read from a config file;
- For a given user, its maildir location will be read from ldap, so base
dn, bind dn, uid attribute to search for and resulting attribute
(mailbox for example) will be read also from a config file.
- with its mailbox path, plugin will ftp localhost (or remote host), cd
to mailbox path read from ldap and store .mailfilter

Looks very simple to me :))
This will allow to use the plugin with virtual users stored on a ldap
server. Next step would make a sql backend... that will be then the
long-waited killer plugin for sm... in fact, IMHO, this is the final
step to put sqwebmail apart.

If you code this, I will gladly test and give you proper feed back.
Also, if you need any help on this, call me and I'll be happy to help.

-- 
Marcio Merlone