Re: NewBie with OpenLDAP

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

> > > Read the Sendmail documentation, with emphasis on
> > > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/ldap.html  Or the corresponding documentation
> > > for whatever SMTP server you prefer.
> > You might also want to look at the undocumented sendmail feature that 
> > allows you to use LDAP as an alias map.  This allows for sendmail to queue 
> > mail if it doesn't get an answer from the directory service, and means you 
> > don't have to use Sendmail's odd little LDAP schema.
> pardon my ignorance but this is a topic that very much interests me. How
> does one 'look at the undocumented sendmail feature that allows you to
> use LDAP as an alias map?'

O AliasFile=/etc/aliases,ldap: -k (&(objectClass=nisMailAlias)(cn=%0))
-v rfc822mailmember

Or some such, basically it is an LDAP sequence.  But this is off-topic,
so I'm shutting up now. :)