Adding the postfix book schema to 389-ds

[Will Merkens]

I have been trying to add a schema to 389-ds based on this blog article

http://acidx.net/wordpress/2014/06/installing-a-mailserver-with-postfix-dove...

The article was based around generic openldap, I used it only as a general guide.

The schema listed in the article called postfix-book scheme http://www.postfix-buch.com/downloads.php. is what I was interested in.

In the openldap scenario I saw they converted the schema to a ldif file which I did dry run and the notes on converting it worked but when I looked at
duplicating it under 389-ds I saw that all the base schema's were already ldif's and I did not see the source schema's that the conversion notes said I would need.

I did add the Objectclass from the postfix book schema manually and then the attributes but I could not seem to figure out how to link the object class I
created to the users. I can see that a user has "posixAccount, inetorgperson, organizationalPerson, person, top" as Object class's. I wanted to add my Object
class PostfixBookMailAccount so the attributes used by that object class would be available to all user accounts.

If I am going about this the wrong way please feel free to enlighten me.

[William Brown]

On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 13:44 -0600, Will Merkens wrote:
> I have been trying to add a schema to 389-ds based on this blog article
>
> http://acidx.net/wordpress/2014/06/installing-a-mailserver-with-postfix-dove...
>
> The article was based around generic openldap, I used it only as a general guide.
>
> The schema listed in the article called postfix-book scheme http://www.postfix-buch.com/downloads.php. is what I was interested in.
>
> In the openldap scenario I saw they converted the schema to a ldif file which I did dry run and the notes on converting it worked but when I looked at
> duplicating it under 389-ds I saw that all the base schema's were already ldif's and I did not see the source schema's that the conversion notes said I would need.
>
> I did add the Objectclass from the postfix book schema manually and then the attributes but I could not seem to figure out how to link the object class I
> created to the users. I can see that a user has "posixAccount, inetorgperson, organizationalPerson, person, top" as Object class's. I wanted to add my Object
> class PostfixBookMailAccount so the attributes used by that object class would be available to all user accounts.
>
> If I am going about this the wrong way please feel free to enlighten me.

To manage custom schema for an instance, you can add the entries you
need into "/etc/dirsrv/slapd-instancename/schema/99user.ldif", and
restart the server (or run the schema reload task).

I can't find many good examples of schema with postfix/dovecot : if you
attach the schema you have I can have a look to help you work out if
it's suitable or not.

Hope that helps,