[imp] forcing certain settings to look in database

[Vince LaMonica]

Hi all,

I'm running Horde 2.0/IMP 3.1 [am in the process of upgrading as I type 
this], and I have an interesting problem. I have several [well, over 10] 
installs of IMP so that I can maintain different settings for different 
virtual domains [eg: webmail.vdomain.edu, webmail.vdomain2.edu, etc]. 

One of the virtual domains I am running [via apache/postfix/IMAP4rev1 
2001.315] I want to force the users to use a certain From: and full name. 
Since this is a virtual domain, their real [as /etc/passwd sees it] name 
and account is: vdinfo. With postfix's virtual domains in place, I have 
e.mail set so that info at vdomain.edu really goes to vdinfo at mydomain.edu. 

I do not want to advertise the "vdinfo at mydomain.edu" address - all e.mail 
sent via IMP should appear to come from info at vdomain.edu. This works very 
well if I allow the user to edit their identity. It stores the full name 
and From: address in the mysql database just fine.

However, when I alter prefs.php so that it locks those two fields:


$_prefs['fullname'] = array(
    'value' => '',
    'locked' => true,
    'shared' => true,
    'type' => 'implicit'
);

$_prefs['from_addr'] = array(
    'value' => '',
    'locked' => true,
    'shared' => true,
    'type' => 'implicit'
);

The custom fullname and From: headers on outgoing e.mail are not honored. 
The data is still present in the database, but apparently IMP is not 
looking in the database when the above locked attributes are marked as 
"true". 

What I'd like to do is login as a user, make the needed changes to the 
fullname/from: header [with 'locked' being set to false], logout, and then 
change prefs.php to mark 'locked' as true.

Is this possible? Any advice would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

/vjl/

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