carlos.hanson at gmail
Feb 1, 2009, 2:06 AM
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Re: user and mailbox management with ldap
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Thanks. I thought that might be where I would end up. I was worried it
would be more complicated. Thank goodness for cascade on delete.
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Paul J Stevens <paul [at] nfg> wrote:
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> Use sql:
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> begin;
> delete from dbmail_users where userid='someusername';
> commit;
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> this will delete (per cascade) all mailboxes and messages connected.
> Upon next delivery to this user, the record in dbmail_users will be
> re-created.
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> Carlos Hanson wrote:
>> dbmail-users -e simply deletes all the email. It does not delete any mailboxes.
>>
>> Let me try again. I want to delete an account: email, mailboxes, any
>> record of usage. I assume that dbmail-users -d does that already.
>> However, when using LDAP, I do not want to delete the LDAP account,
>> just the dbmail records.
>>
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>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Aaron Stone <aaron [at] serendipity> wrote:
>>> Sounds like dbmail-user -e is indeed what you're looking for.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:07 -0800, Carlos Hanson wrote:
>>>> Not really a disable email. More of a clear out all records of this
>>>> account in the database as if they never had email. I haven't looked
>>>> at the code for deleting an account, but my expectation is that is
>>>> part of the deletion. Since I don't want to delete the LDAP account,
>>>> that option doesn't work for me.
>>>>
>>>> The disable email is a good idea though in addition to the delete all
>>>> mailboxes. There may be times when you want to disable an account
>>>> temporarily, or perhaps permanently without the desire to purge all
>>>> email and mailboxes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Aaron Stone <aaron [at] serendipity> wrote:
>>>>> Without getting into the implementation details, it sounds like you want a
>>>>> "disable email for this user" option?
>>>>>
>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:26:24 -0800, Carlos Hanson <carlos.hanson [at] gmail>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am testing DBMail as a replacement to our Postfix maildir setup. All
>>>>>> our accounts live in Active Directory, and I can successfully
>>>>>> authenticate to AD to check mail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because our current setup is on the file system, if I want to delete a
>>>>>> user's mailbox, I delete their home directory on the mail server. I do
>>>>>> not want to delete their AD account, since we manage our those
>>>>>> accounts with other tools. dbmail-users allows me to "empty all
>>>>>> mailboxes for a user" with the -e flag, but I don't see an option to
>>>>>> delete one or all mailboxes without having to delete the AD account.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Has anyone else come across this situation or something similar? Do I
>>>>>> just need to deal with the database directly? Maybe I just need to
>>>>>> modify dbmail-users to add a check to see if I want to delete the AD
>>>>>> account.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll take any suggestions before I dig into the code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
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