[GH-ISSUE #482] LDAP Sync #468

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Originally created by @tonioo on GitHub (Dec 4, 2013).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa/issues/482

Originally assigned to: @tonioo on GitHub.

Originally created by Gérald Colangelo on 2012-04-26T13:10:01Z

Modoboa is able to use a LDAP directory to log user in and would create automatically mailboxes if don't exist.
This can be consider as a "basic" LDAP synchronization processus.
The only problem is that user must first login to modoboa to get his mailbox created.

A periodical check against the LDAP directory to create new mailboxes may be useful and may make Modoboa a choice for "Active directory powered companies"...

Originally created by @tonioo on GitHub (Dec 4, 2013). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa/issues/482 Originally assigned to: @tonioo on GitHub. **Originally created by Gérald Colangelo on 2012-04-26T13:10:01Z** Modoboa is able to use a LDAP directory to log user in and would create automatically mailboxes if don't exist. This can be consider as a "basic" LDAP synchronization processus. The only problem is that user must first login to modoboa to get his mailbox created. A periodical check against the LDAP directory to create new mailboxes may be useful and may make Modoboa a choice for "Active directory powered companies"...

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@almereyda commented on GitHub (Nov 23, 2016):

@pierreozoux In https://github.com/tonioo/modoboa/issues/821#issuecomment-247705224 you mentioned we would need Modoboa to be a read/write LDAP editor. It shouldn't be too hard to reconfigure Postfix and Dovecot to directly authenticate against such a service, if available. Deployment and configuration of an LDAP service and a separate LDAP management plugin can be managed with the -installer, then. The syncing idea appears a little clumsy, to be frank.

@almereyda commented on GitHub (Nov 23, 2016): @pierreozoux In https://github.com/tonioo/modoboa/issues/821#issuecomment-247705224 you mentioned we would need Modoboa to be a read/write LDAP editor. It shouldn't be too hard to reconfigure Postfix and Dovecot to directly authenticate against such a service, if available. Deployment and configuration of an LDAP service and a separate LDAP management plugin can be managed with the `-installer`, then. The syncing idea appears a little clumsy, to be frank.

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@tonioo commented on GitHub (Nov 23, 2016):

@almereyda What would you do instead? Modoboa will never be able to use an LDAP directory as storage backend since Django can't do it...

@tonioo commented on GitHub (Nov 23, 2016): @almereyda What would you do instead? Modoboa will never be able to use an LDAP directory as storage backend since Django can't do it...