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[Roberto Nunnari]

Thank you Andrew and Jan.
I'll give it a try..

Best regards.
Robi


Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jan.
>>
>> Could you please point me to a howto or introduction to
>> vinfo hook?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Robi.
>>
>>
>> Jan Schneider wrote:
>>> Zitat von Roberto Nunnari <robi at nunnisoft.ch>:
>>>
>>>> Every mailbox as a local unix account, ie:
>>>> info at adomain.com --> a1
>>>> steve at adomain.com --> a2
>>>> info at anotherdomain.com --> b1
>>>> joe at anotherdomain.com --> b2
>>>> etc..
>>>>
>>>> Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the
>>>> webmail login.. I'd like info at adomain.com to login with a
>>>> username equal to the email, but at present the authentication in
>>>> horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that..
>>>
>>> You could use the vinfo hook to convert between both user name styles.
>>>
>>> Jan.
> 
> Here is an example vinfo hook that we use to force all usernames to 
> lowercase:
> 
> if (!function_exists('_imp_hook_vinfo')) {
>         function _imp_hook_vinfo($type = 'username') {
>                 if ($type == 'username') {
>                         return preg_replace('/\s/', '', 
> strtolower($_SESSION['imp']['user']));
>                 } elseif ($type == 'vdomain') {
>                         return '';
>                 } else {
>                         return PEAR::raiseError('invalid type: ' . $type);
>                 }
>         }
> }
> 
> 
> You could replace the code inside "if ($type == 'username') { ... }" 
> with code to convert from "info at adomain.com" to "a1".  Perhaps you have 
> this mapping stored in LDAP, MySQL, or a flat file?  The specifics would 
> be up to you.
> 
>     Andy