Re: LDAP and e-mail

[Stuart Lynne <sl@fireplug.net>]

On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 02:30:46PM -0600, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> Hi,
> Yes we do it on a small testing scale here at UNT with a full-bore production
> being ready for late Spring 99.
> 
> Exchange uses a module that allows you to access it's email address book from a
> LDAP client. I heard Pine had LDAP capabilities but I have not tried them out.
> Netscape and IE both allow you to search any LDAP server you wish. Netscape 4.5
> (released a 2 weeks ago) has an added capability that it will auto-complete
> against any LDAP compliant server, not just a local address book. I have tried
> Netscape's address book against Netscape DS 1&3, Exchange and Novell's Groupwise
> LDAP plugin. I haven't tried against OpenLDAP or UMich because I don't have
> either one of those setup on a machine against which I can hit across a network,
> but you shouldn't have any problems.
> 
> I believe the latest Sendmail allows you to search against LDAP for email
> aliasing, so it can operate in a similar fashion to Exchange if you need to make
> it appear like Exchange to managment types. :) Except of course this will likely
> run faster and be much more available than your Exchange server. :)

And Exim has allows most of it's configuration to be set from either a string 
or database lookup. The database lookup is generalized and includes dbm, db, 
NIS, NIS+ and LDAP. 

I use Exim/LDAP to support virtual users in virtual domains (delivery to either
POP or IMAP mailboxes, forward somewhere else, or return a message). This
involves looking up mailforwarding information, mailbox location, auto-reply
mode (aka vacation) and auto-reply text from LDAP.

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