[Freeipa-users] Single mail deployment i an FreeIPA-WindowsAD scenario.

[Martin Kosek]

On 05/26/2015 07:36 PM, Carlos Raúl Laguna wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> The email deployment it is a groupware in this scenario Kolab, kolab use
> 389 ad as main backend and it require some kolab ldap specific attribute to
> work properly, this is not a problem in fact is quite easy to use freeipa
> as kolab backend, so far so good but the romance only get this far. Since
> we also use Windows Ad with forest-trust not all user are present in the
> FreeIPA directory and there it is where my problem lays. Since not all user
> are in the same box it become difficult to implement one mail system for
> all users. Regards

As I said, we have compat tree that allows LDAP BIND authentication and LDAP
identity (not enumeration) for both IPA users and AD users when realm is in place.

You can even update the configuration of the compat tree and add the kolab
specific fields to be generated there too. There was very similar request on
freeipa-users. It was for vSphere, but dealing with very similar use case and
the final solution:

http://www.freeipa.org/page/HowTo/vsphere5_integration

Would that approach work for you?