[imp] identities

[Chris H.]

Quoting Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>:

>> >>Am I missing something here? If using sendmail on a NIX box, you can
>> >>assign aliases for any individual you wish. I have found that IMP
>> >>(with an IMAP server) correctly expands the available aliases for
>> >>the user. Thereby only permitting the choice of*valid* aliases for
>> >>for the sender.
>> >>Is this not your desired goal?
>
>> >???
>> >What do you mean by expand the available aliases in IMP? As far as i
>> >known the choice is to let the user set his/her e-Mail address per
>> >identity or not by simply typing it in. What we want to do is to let
>> >the users choose only from the aliases defined for his/her account in
>> >the database.
>> >What settings do you use and is this maybe a feature of IMP 4.1.x??
>
> On 15.05.06 03:09, Chris H. wrote:
>> Indeed. What you say is true. However, I found that if auth is done
>> (handled)
>> by your IMAP server (UW-IMAP in my case) the ~/.mail_aliases located in the
>> users ~/ (home) directory are expanded and they appear(ed) in the dropdown
>> in the personal preferences (identity) section. Granted, all of this depends
>> on what "security" model you (as administrator) choose to impliment within
>> Horde/ IMP. But I can't see where one could not "invent" a group within
>> Horde/ IMP and assign certian properties that would accomplish what you
>> are hoping to achive using the (some) BD model. There are *so* many
>> possibilities permitted in combination with Horde/ IMP and MySQL within
>> the options permitted in the administration panel of Horde, and IMP.
>> It should be _nearly_ trivial.
>
> Pardon, who expands ~/.mail_aliases? The imap server or horde/imp?
>
> I've searched both for string "mail_aliases", but found nothing. Maybe it's
> FreeBSD(or whatever)-specific function that uses external library to get the
> list of mail addresses from the ~/.mail_aliases file...
>
> Also, looking at the dot.mail_aliases file, this seems to be kinda personal
> addressbook of users used to send mail TO OTHER users. It is not list of
> their own addresses. We wanted to choose the From: address from predefined
> by admin, not choose To:/Cc: address.
>
> However, either option is not applicable by us. Our users are virtual, do
> not have home directories nor ~/.mail_aliases file, and we use courier so I
> doubt anyone else than courierd does know what addresses belong to users.

I thought I already responded to this. But perhaps not. In any event. In the
situation I was describing, with an IMAP+sendnmail combination, this works
as described. As the user(s) have local account(s) and authenticating against
IMAP+sendmail causes the contents of the file to be parsed and the aliases
contained therein to be expanded and available in the dropdown list in IMP.
This isn't specifically a FreeBSD-ism either. Though I have no doubt that
nothing remotely similar exists on Windows.
Anyway, I just hoped to clarify my earlier response.

--Chris H.

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