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[Scott Balmos <address@concealed>]

Hi all,

I'm not sure how to proceed with this... I almost need the equivalent of 
a 2-level LDAP named filter search ability for scenarios.

My lists are dynamic, based on posixGroup entries in LDAP. I easily run 
a 2-level LDAP include search in order to build the members. An example 
is below:

ou=list1
 memberUid: sbalmos
ou=people
 uid: sbalmos
 mail: address@concealed
 mailForwarding: address@concealed
 mailAlternate: address@concealed
 mailAlternate: address@concealed

The 2-level query works great, as I said. The first level grabs the uid 
list, and the next grabs the mail attribute corresponding to each uid. 
So the subscriber cache database table gets filled with the mail 
attributes (in my case address@concealed for list "list1").

Now comes the hard part... I want to be able to send from any of my mail 
addresses, not just the one in the mail attribute. The mail attribute 
address is kind of like the canonic address, and the others are 
alternates (I think I've been over this topic before).

So now, I need a two-level LDAP search. The first search would search to 
match the [sender] address to any address in attributes mail, 
mailForwarding, and mailAlternate. It would grab the mail attribute (the 
canonic address), and then do a normal 
is_subscriber([returned_mail_attr]) to see if I really am a member of 
the list. In reality, it seems, I could get away with 
search(sender_canonic.ldap,[sender]) if search() would return a string 
that I could use in another scenario function, not just true or false.

e.g. in a scenario file...

search(sender_canonic.ldap,[sender])   smtp   -> assign_to=mail_attr
is_subscriber([mail_attr])   smtp   -> do_it

Or something similar I guess.

Is anything like this remotely possible? How hard would this be to 
implement if it's not available? Something like this could sink my 
system setup if I can't find a way. :(

Thanks!

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Scott Balmos