[Dovecot] Using account alias as login

[Hugo Monteiro]

Javier Amor García wrote:
> Hello,
>  I use dovecot with a LDAP backend for user account and aliases. The aliases
> are objects of the class couriermailalias.
>  Some users would like to use the alias address as POP/IMAP login instead of
> the 'true' account.
> Is this possible?.
> I am using dovecot version 1.0,10, from ubuntu hardy packages.
>
> Thanks for any answer,
>   Javier
>
>   

Hello Javier,

I don't use couriermailalias, but i do use the qmailUser objectclass 
which provides both mail and mailAlternateAddress attributes. As an 
example, i would say that you can use something like

user_filter = 
(&(objectClass=qmailUser)(|(mail=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u)))

and

pass_filter = (&(objectClass=qmailUser)((uid=%u)(mailAlternateAddress=%u)))

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Hugo Monteiro.

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