On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> I use dovecot IMAP to keep email on one machine, > >> and basically would like to extend this to distribution lists. > > > > This is where you lose me. I can understand wanting to define a list as > > the result of an LDAP query (rather than having to enumerate all the > > members) but you can do that via your MTA. For example we have public > > IMAP lists defined for "all students", "all faculty" and so on, by > > tweaking our Postfix config. I don't know much about Dovecot but I > > imagine it can also do this. Involving a mail client just seems to be > > the wrong way to go about it. > > I'm not sure what you mean by an IMAP list? > I don't see any facility in dovecot to create lists. > (Nb I'm almost completely ignorant of dovecot/IMAP.) My bad. I was stupidly forgetting that Dovecot is an IMAP server, not an MTA. I should have said you can configure your MTA to do this (as we did with Postfix). > Actually, I found it was only moderately painful > to create kaddressbook distribution lists > from an LDAP address book. > Basically, I listed all the entries in the book in kaddressbook. > This lists the "o" attribute, which I use for distinguishing entries, > and one can go through the list marking entries > with Shift-Left Button, and then add all the marked entries > to a specified distribution list. > > I know I could - probably should - have used something like mailman. > But I'm rather taken with the idea of keeping all information > in an LDAP directory on one machine, > which can be accessed over the web. Going back to my original point, this is fine as far as it goes, but you lose the funcionality of a list manager (e.g. users can subscribe/unsubscribe, moderation, digests, password reminders etc.). Anyway, horses for courses. Cheers poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
