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Re: LDAP usages

Robert Canary <phantom@ohiocounty.net> writes:

> Greetings List,
>
> I am investigating the possiblilty of using LDAP to control our mail
> severs.  However, I know *nothing* about LDAP.  I am completely ignorant
> to its capabilities, functions, purposes, controls, and configurations.
>
> Before I get to invloved with this project (only to find out it is not
> doing what I want).  I would like share with what I am wanting to do and
> hopefully you can give me some feed back on what I need to do, as well
> as some helpful documentation.  I have the manual from the website.
>
> We have three mail servers.  
> 1 public - used for general mail accounts under our domain
> 1 semi-public - used for clients with email under their own domain. 
> This server hosts a number of virtual mail accounts.  So the editing of
> "/etc/virtualusers" and "/etc/genericstable" and "/etc/generics-domain"
> (and others) would need to be edited when a virtual mailuser is added.
> 1  noraml mail server for a business, which co-lcates the sever here,
> but we maintain and admin the server.

Get the Sendmail tarball and have a look at cf/README, in particular
the chapters "using ldap for aliases, maps and classes" and "ldap
routing", it is a comprehensive introduction to the capabilities of
ldap in conjunction with any SMTPD, may it be either Sendmail, Postfix
or Exim.

The Sendmail+LDAP HOWTO will give you a brief introduction
http://www.iconimaging.net/~jradford/sendmail/sendmail-ldap.html

> Will LDAP allow me to control these accounts?  I am mainly concerned
> about the second (semi-public) server.  It has allotof moving parts to
> be edited for a virtual mail user to function properly, as well as
> adding a domain.

http://jamm.sourceforge.net

Jamm is a nice java based tool to administer virtual maildir accounts
in particular together with Courier IMAP and OpenLDAP.


> Dose LDAP have to be loaded on the same server, or can it be else where
> on the network.  I mainly need LDAP for a more standardizes approach for
> admin:ing mail accounts and domains.

It can be somewhere on your network.


-Dieter

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