[imp] Mapping From address...

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Anant Athavale <asa at isac.gov.in>:

> Dear List:
>
> We have a facility with different kinds of Operating systems and using
> NIS for authentication.  In this environment, we have a limitation of
> 8 characters for userid.
>
> We use ldap for authentication in IMP mailing system (which we know
> supports more than 8 characters for userid).
>
> But, our policy is that we should have same userid everywhere so that
> it is easy to manage the accounts. So, we are limited by NIS / UNIX
> limitations.
>
> But, is it possible that, we have a additional attribute in LDAP
> structure which has a longer userid, and we map smaller userid with
> logner userid for sending mails.  We can do it for receiving mails.
> But, don't know how to do it for sending.
>
> ie. for example, my e-mail id is asa at isac.gov.in, but while sending,
> it should send as "anant.athavale at isac.gov.in".
>
> To conclude: can we configure From address by a script? Like search
> ldap for a given id and get its longer e-mail address.

That's what preference hooks are for, there even is an example for the  
from address in config/hooks.php.

Jan.

-- 
Do you need professional PHP or Horde consulting?
http://horde.org/consulting/