mailDeliveryOption

Origin

Messaging Server 5.0

Syntax

cis, multi-valued

Object Classes

inetMailGroup, inetMailUser

Definition

Specifies delivery options for the mail recipient. One or more values are permitted on a user or group entry, supporting multiple delivery paths for inbound messages. Values will apply differently depending on whether the attribute is used in inetMailGroup or inetMailUser.

Note, that the mailUserStatus attribute is processed before this attribute. If mailUserStatus is set to hold, an internal flag is set so that when mailDeliveryOption is processed, the mailUserStatus hold overrides whatever delivery options are specified with mailDeliveryOption.

For users, delivery addresses are generated for each valid delivery option value.

Valid values are:

For users only (inetMailUser):

• autoreply– Specifies autoreply is turned on for the user. Messages on which the recipient is listed in the “To:” or “Cc:” header fields of the message are sent to the autoreply channel where an autoreply message is generated and sent to the original sender.

• hold– A recipient is temporarily halted from receiving messages. Note that unlike mailUserStatus, hold for this attribute does not disallow POP, IMAP and WebMail access. For this attribute, hold only halts delivery to the recipient’s mailbox, but access is still allowed.

• mailbox– Deliver messages to the user’s IMAP/POP store.

• native or unix– Deliver messages to the user’s /var/mail store INBOX. The store is in Berkeley mailbox format. Messaging Server does not support /var/mail access. Users must use UNIX tools to access mail from the /var/mail store.

For groups only (inetMailGroup):

• file– Messages are appended to the file specified in the attribute mailDeliveryFileURL.

• members– Messages are sent to members of the mailing list. If missing, the default is assumed to be members.

• members_offline– To defer processing for this group, set the attribute to this value, and set the option.dat file option DEFER_GROUP_PROCESSING to zero (0).

Both users and groups:

These values are handled the same for both users and groups.

• program– Messages are delivered to a program, which is on the approved list of programs (specified in MTA’s configuration). The name of the program is specified in the attribute mailProgramdeliveryInfo.

• forward– Specifies that messages will be forwarded. The forwarding address is specified in the attribute mailForwardingAddress. Note that when this value is set, mailForwardingAddress must be set to keep the mail system in sync.

The MTA option DELIVERY_OPTIONS, found in the msg-svr-base/config/option.dat file, defines how each of the previously listed values will be processed.

The MTA option used to override this attribute’s value is LDAP_DELIVERY_OPTION.

Example

mailDeliveryOption: mailbox

OID

2.16.840.1.113730.3.1.16