Custom logic

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

Steve,

the listserv is not dead.

I don't believe automx can do what you want out of the box. automx may
include script logic to return results.

Christian, author of automx, may let you in on the details.

p at rick



* Steve Meier <smeier at webster.edu>:
> Is this listserv dead?
> 
> If there is no community for AUTOMX then I will probably just create a custom application than use it since that was my original plan.
> 
> -SM
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> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:51 PM -0800, "Steve Meier" <smeier at webster.edu<mailto:smeier at webster.edu>> wrote:
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am evaluating automx for potential use within our environment.  I have set up an instance of automx for testing and am looking into how we can implement some programming logic needed to get a correct response needed to support our different use-cases.
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> The general logic needed is-
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> 1) User has provided a "username at domain.edu" address
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> 2) Query our LDAP server by the uid=username and retrieve the mailRoutingAddress attribute.
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> 3) mailRoutingAddress will follow one of three rules-
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>   a) the "username at servername.domain.edu"
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>   b) an external "forwarding address" that has been assigned by the user (for example a gmail, a yahoo, etc)
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>   c) "username at tenant.onmicrosoft.com" (in other words, an institution-specific Office 365 instance)
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> 
> 4) Based on the rules above, we need to send the correct response, respectively
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>   a) respond with settings for IMAP+SMTP email service (based off username, servername)
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>   b) don't send a response (or possibly fall back to settings using a different LDAP attribute)
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>   c respond with a redirect to Microsoft O365 autodiscover.outlook.com
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> 
> 
> I have read through the documentation and it appears it may be possible to do this using automx, but I am not sure yet.  The documentation referenced this listserv, so I thought I would ask.
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> Can anyone provide some insight into whether or not above would be possible, and if so, the general approach to go about it?  I can see it may require a combination of things (filters, custom scripts, LDAP, etc).
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> 
> Thanks and Happy Holidays =)
> 
> -SteveM

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