ldap and pop

[Eric Lackey <eric@isdn.net>]

> This is more about pop than ldap but I think that maybe someone on this
> list has tried to do what I am trying and could probably help.  By reading
> the subject you might assume that I am trying to authenticate pop users to
> an ldap directory.  Actually that was the easy part.  I work for an ISP,
> so I have a few different mail servers at my location.  I am using
> sendmails ldap functions to route incoming mail to various mail servers at
> my location, 3 different mail servers to be exact.  So the mail comes to
> the main server (mail.domain.com, for instance) and it checks ldap to find
> if it needs to forward to one of the other 2 servers (mail2.domain.com or
> mail3.domain.com) or just drop it off at localhost.  That part is working
> fine.  The problem is that I want my users to be able to enter
> mail.domain.com on their mail clients for outgoing (SMTP) mail as well as
> incoming (POP) mail.  I am trying to find a way to have a pop server like
> ipop3d check the ldap server to find out which pop server the client is
> supposed to get its mail and forward the user to that pop server on
> another machine.  I am trying to do this because we often add, change, and
> remove mail servers from our network.  I do not want my customers to have
> to change their pop settings on their mail clients every time that a
> change is made.  I want LDAP to hold all of that information instead.  If
> anyone want's me to explain any further or in any more detail, I would be
> happy to.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Eric Lackey
> ISDN-Net Operations
> eric@isdn.net