Re: POP3/IMAP server using LDAP

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, John Lederer wrote:

# Now I need to replace Netscape's message server, so I am looking for an
# imap/pop3 server that can get its user info (authentication, aliases,
# group memberships, etc.)out of LDAP. 

	Oh, I see.  That's two different things.  You want the IMAP server
that will support the authentication and access control part, and you want
the MTA that'll support the aliases and stuff.  I'm not sure how you're
using groups, so I don't know where that'd be.  Pretty much any ol' mail
server will do these days, postfix, sendmail, qmail, take your pick,
they'e all got some kinda LDAP support.  As far as the IMAP server.  I
really dig Cyrus, as it doesn't require users to exist on the machine.  It
does add a small extra piece of management, because the mailbox has to
exist on the server, but you can create it via IMAP as part of the ``give
this guy mail access'' routine.  I'm not sure how it's handled in other
IMAP servers.  I'm sure you could hack it to auto-create mailboxes on
delivery given a valid LDAP map entry.

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