From: Brian Evans (grknightscent-team.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 08:15:45 CDT

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Wojtek Bogusz wrote:
> dear postfix'ers, please help. i cannot find the solution to my
> problem. i do not understand what am i doing wrong. Wojtek
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ldap users & aliases config
> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 17:18:45 +0100
> From: Wojtek Bogusz <WojtekFrontLineDefenders.org>
> To: postfix-userspostfix.org
>
> hi. i am looking for help in setting up users and aliases in ldap for
> postfix. i am running on Ubuntu 7.10 with postfix 2.3.8-2
>
> in main.cf i defined source for user accounts as:
>
> accounts_server_host = localhost
> accounts_search_base = ou=Users,dc=frontline
> accounts_query_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))
> accounts_result_attribute = uid
> accounts_bind = no
> virtual_transport = dovecot
> virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail/domains
> virtual_mailbox_maps = ldap:accounts
> virtual_mailbox_domains = frontlinedefenders.org
> virtual_domain = frontlinedefenders.org
> virtual_minimum_uid = 30000
> virtual_uid_maps = static:30000
> virtual_gid_maps = static:33
>
> and source for user aliases as:
> aliases_server_host = localhost
> aliases_search_base = ou=EmailAliases,dc=frontline
> aliases_query_filter = (&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(sn=%u))
> aliases_result_attribute = cn
> aliases_bind = no
> virtual_alias_maps = ldap:aliases, hash:/etc/aliases
I hope these are not the same files. Be more specific with paths to
avoid confusion.

>
> i defined ou=EmailAliases,dc=frontline records as inetOrgPerson class
> type. so i have as 'cn' a user name (eg. 'wojtek') and as 'sn' different
> aliases for this user name (eg. 'wojtekbogusz', 'admin', ...). so for
> example you can do anonymous ldapsearch like this from command line:
>
> $ ldapsearch -b 'ou=EmailAliases,dc=frontline' -x 'sn=admin' cn
> # extended LDIF
> #
> # LDAPv3
> # base <ou=EmailAliases,dc=frontline> with scope subtree
> # filter: sn=admin
> # requesting: cn
> #
>
> # wojtek, EmailAliases, frontline
> dn: cn=wojtek,ou=EmailAliases,dc=frontline
>
> # john, EmailAliases, frontline
> dn: cn=john,ou=EmailAliases,dc=frontline
>
> # search result
> search: 2
> result: 0 Success
>
> # numResponses: 3
> # numEntries: 2
>
>
> i was trying to debug ldap by specifying 'loglevel acl filter' in
> /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. but most bizarre is that when i am feeding postfix
> by hand over smtp and give 'rcpt to:
> wojtekboguszfrontlinedefenders.org'. 'wojtekbogusz' does not appear in
> the /var/log/syslog (or debug or mail.info) at all. i can see a lot of
> activity, looking through the entries in ldap but nothing corresponding
> to query_filer specified above '(&(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)(sn=%u))' -
> where i believe %u should be set to 'wojtekbogusz'........?

Show 'postconf -n'. Show result of 'postmap -q
wojtekboguszfrontlinedefenders.org ldap:/path/to/aliases'
Logging can be done in other places too (mail.warn, maillog, mail.err,
etc.) depending on how your syslogger is setup.

Brian
>
> i do not understand this all and i am a bit crossed :-)
> can anybody advice please?
>
> best regards, Wojtek
>
>

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