samba - Aug 2015 - Classic upgrade - no email addresses

I've been running through a bunch of tests after migrating from Samba 3 
to Samba 4 and only just noticed that the user email addresses didn't 
come across from openldap. Is this a know issue or is this an isolated case?

regards,
John

On 31/08/15 07:27, John Gardeniers wrote:
> I've been running through a bunch of tests after migrating from Samba 
> 3 to Samba 4 and only just noticed that the user email addresses >
didn't come across from openldap. Is this a know issue or is this an > 
isolated case? > > regards, John > >

It is not so much an issue but a problem, with openldap, the 'mail' 
attribute can appear multiple times, with AD it is single valued. If you 
have users with more than one email address, how is the upgrade to know 
which is the main one, if in fact you refer to one as the main one ? 
There is another attribute you can use to store email address 
'otherMailbox' , but you may be better off investigating mail servers 
like zarafa that can authenticate via AD.

Rowland

Hi Rowland,

Perhaps I misled you with my wording. Each user has just one email 
address, which was not migrated across. From where I'm sitting that 
looks like a very serious bug.

regards,
John


On 31/08/15 19:07, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 31/08/15 07:27, John Gardeniers wrote:
>> I've been running through a bunch of tests after migrating from 
>> Samba  > 3 to Samba 4 and only just noticed that the user email 
>> addresses > 
> didn't come across from openldap. Is this a know issue or is this an
>
> isolated case? > > regards, John > >
>
> It is not so much an issue but a problem, with openldap, the 'mail'
> attribute can appear multiple times, with AD it is single valued. If 
> you have users with more than one email address, how is the upgrade to 
> know which is the main one, if in fact you refer to one as the main 
> one ? There is another attribute you can use to store email address 
> 'otherMailbox' , but you may be better off investigating mail
servers
> like zarafa that can authenticate via AD.
>
> Rowland
>