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Re: Distribution Lists
At 11:24 +1000 13 May 1999, Greg Bastian <gbastian> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a basic LDAP question.
>
> I wish to implement LDAP to provide email address lookups in our firm,
> but we also have requirements for centralised distribution lists (i.e.
> An Entry called "All" will send mail to everyone in the company,
> "Corporate" will send mail to people in Corp. Dept.)
>
> Can this be done with a few LDAP entries ? Can this be integrate
> easily with the MTA we use for internal mail ? (Postfix)
It's possible, and even easy, but not supported in the included LDAP
lookup code due to my concerns about Netscape's attempt to patent the
concept. The additional code to handle maildrops that turn out to be
URLs is really trivial. Likewise for the setup in your directory: the
mailing list entries would just have a URL maildrop that returns entries
that have a given ou or objectclass or just live in a certain part of
the tree, if you've got yours set up that way.
I'll be happy to talk about it further, but this is pretty specific to
Postfix, not OpenLDAP, so I think we should take it offline or to the
postfix-users list.
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