Re: Search filter wackyness

[Tony Earnshaw <tonye@billy.demon.nl>]

Luke Pascoe wrote:

> Our ldap database has objects with the following attributes (amongst 
> others):
> mail
> maildrop
> mailacceptinggeneralid
>
> When I search with this filter "(mail=my@email.address.com)" it matches 
> any record where:
>  a) mail = my@email.address.com
>  b) maildrop = my@email.address.com
>  c) mailacceptinggeneralid = my@email.address.com
>
> Obviously there's some funky wildcard foo going on there, but all the 
> docs I can find suggest this is NOT normal behaviour.

Where do you get those whacky attributes from? To me it says: "Postfix". 
 But your filter isn't a Postfix filter.

For Postfix (and nothing else) I search attributes with variables like 
%u, %s etc and all works as documented: "(mail=%u@email.address.com)" or 
"(mail=%s)", the latter where the FQDN email.address.com has been 
specified as 'domain' in the Postfix LDAP data search rule.

What client are you using for your lookups? What version, what Openldap 
version? Me as up-to-date Openldap and Postfix snapshot as make no 
difference.

--Tonni

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