* Pavel Dimow <paveldi...@gmail.com>:
> if postfix append the "primary" domain value then it's quite ok with me, I
> guess it's not a performance penalty for postfix?

I have never measured and I believe it is not worth doing so. The performance
penalty should be negligible.

> I can then use auth_default_realm in dovecot and problem should be solved.

All roads lead to Rome. ;)

p...@rick



> 
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p...@state-of-mind.de> 
> wrote:
> > * Pavel Dimow <paveldi...@gmail.com>:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> I know that this is maybe question for more LDAP oriented users, but I hope
> >> someone here can help me. I have a postfix with one "primary" domain and
> >> dozen virtual domains. The problem is that users from primary domain use 
> >> only
> >> their username (without domain part) for SASL authentication and all
> >> other users
> >> (from virtual domains) are using usern...@somedomain as username.
> >> Now my DIT is organized something like
> >>
> >> ou=people,o=somedomain.com,dc=acmecorp
> >> ou=people,o=virtualdomain.com,dc=acmecorp
> >>
> >>
> >> The question is how can I perform a search for a "primary" domain when I 
> >> don't
> >> have a domain part? Is there anyway that I can "append" a default domain 
> >> when
> >> %d is empty or I can make some sophisticated filter_search?
> >
> > You can create a search filter that only searches for the localpart. But 
> > what
> > if you have identical localparts in your local and your virtual domains and
> > your search finds the localpart in
> > "ou=people,o=virtualdomain.com,dc=acmecorp" first (first match wins)? You
> > would have to create two separate searches and evaluate the local one first.
> >
> > It is probably better and more failsafe configuring Postfix to append a 
> > domain
> > value if a client didn't send one like this:
> >
> > smtpd_sasl_local_domain = somedomain.com
> >
> > This way any search will only take place in
> > "ou=people,o=somedomain.com,dc=acmecorp". This puts the burden to provide 
> > FQDN
> > usernames to virtual users, but they should already know and nad have
> > configured their systems apropriately.
> >
> > p...@rick
> >
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> > saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH):
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> >

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