dovecot - Jun 2006 - a bug in the LDAP code

Hi,

I was heaving some grave problems with dovecot's ldap client that left
me with the following settings for virtual users:

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mbox:
data=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at
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data in that case was correct, yet the INBOX location was wrong, this
should have been /virtual/oeush.at/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at instead.

My settings for the retrieval of the mail environment
in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf were like this:

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user_attrs homeDirectory=home,uidNumber=uid,gidNumber=gid,MailMessageStore=mail
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now at first glance this seems correct, but the problem was the upper
cased "MailMessageStore" attribute name. changing it to
"mailMessageStore" gave me the correct settings:

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mbox:
data=/virtual/oeush.at/home/f.someone/mail/:INBOX=/virtual/oeush.at/var/mail/f.someone.oeush.at
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I don't have any of the LDAP RFCs ready, but I think that per default
the case of the attribute _names_ should not matter when querying an
ldap server.

Udo Rader

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On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:44 +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
> I don't have any of the LDAP RFCs ready, but I think that per default
> the case of the attribute _names_ should not matter when querying an
> ldap server.
I've no idea, but if there's a bug, I'd say it's then in
OpenLDAP
library. Dovecot just passes the attributes as-is to the library.

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