Re: qmail.schema: line 55: Inconsistent duplicate attributeType: "mailHost"

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Anthony wrote:
>
>   
> > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/slapd start
> > Starting slapd.
> > /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/qmail.schema: line 55: Inconsistent duplicate
> > attributeType: "mailHost"
> >     
>
> Did you include "misc.schema" as well?  I note that it's defined in there 
> too.
>   
The definition in misc.schema is taken from 
<draft-lachman-laser-ldap-mail-routing-02.txt> which expired long ago.  
I note that qmail guys modified it to allow substrings searches, which 
might be required by qmail.  Since they seem to be using their own OID 
space, they simply "stealed" the name of the attribute (a better 
practice would have been to prefix everything with "qmail" instead of 
"mail"?  You may run into similar problems with "mailQuota" and 
"mailAlternateAddress", which have already been used by other popular 
schemas).  In any case, you should either avoid including misc.schema, 
or modify qmail.schema to comply
with existing schema items with the same short names (and possibly break 
the need for substring searches in qmail; in any case, what seems to be 
broken here is qmail's schema, based on the fact that "mailHost" was 
around way before qmail ever existed, as far as I can tell).

p.



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