On Thursday 19 January 2006 17:41, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
> > Then I considered doing email routing with ldap, but that has a
> > similar problem because the time in which wildcards can be used
> > is in the address used for the lookup and not a wildcard in an
> > address that's stored in the directory. [At least that's my current
> > understanding after doing some experiments.]
>
> sorry, but I did not understand your current understanding.
I'll try to clarify.
If I were using the outdated inetLocalMailRecipient schema, I would have
ldap entries for people such as this (making it interesting):
dn: uid=lister,ou=People,dc=reddwarf
cn: Lister R D
uid: listerrd
mailHost: holly.reddwarf.net
mailRoutingAddress: lister@???
mailLocalAddress: smeghead@???
mailLocalAddress: listerrd52169@???
mailLocalAddress: listerrd*@???
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
...
I would be looking up the values under the mailLocalAddress attribute, and
rerouting email addresses found under the mailRoutingAddress attribute. For
exact matches this works gangbusters. But -- now let's say an email comes in
for <listerrd.trouble@???>. A lookup is done for this, but a lookup
does not match <listerrd*@???>, and even if a wildcard is specified
at time of the lookup, that would only end up looking up
<listerrd.trouble*@???> which still won't find a match.
So -- does that explain what I wrote earlier?
- Chris
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@???
