Hi, Isnt Postfix the RHEL default now? So is it that hard to do a Postfix-ipa-config.rpm?
Its something we want as well, so I'll do a RFE, RH support will love me more I'm sure.... ;] regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4 463 6272 ________________________________________ From: freeipa-users-boun...@redhat.com [freeipa-users-boun...@redhat.com] on behalf of Rob Crittenden [rcrit...@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 2:56 a.m. To: Petr Spacek Cc: freeipa-users@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Account Expiration Petr Spacek wrote: > On 12.2.2013 20:21, John Dennis wrote: >> On 02/12/2013 01:40 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote: >>>> Is it possible to ipa to send a email to user when his account is about >>>> to expire (the current date is near krbprincipalexpiration date) ? >>> >>> Not currently. In 3.0+ we will provide a notice when one logs into the >>> WebUI but that's it. >>> >>> We can't be sure that an MTA is properly configured on the IPA server at >>> install time so we have punted on this for a while. We don't want to get >>> into the business of picking and configuring one. This is one of those >>> things that seems really easy but gets complicated the deeper you dig >>> into it. We're open to suggestions/patches. >> >> Yeah, I don't think we want to be in the business of installing and >> configuring an MTA. However, we should be able to detect if one is >> available >> and use it if it is. I think it would be reasonable to restrict it to >> LMTP >> with a Unix domain socket (most MTA's support this). Then our config >> would >> have a LMTP domain socket pathname, if that pathname exists and we can >> connect >> to it we use, if not we fallback to not generating any mail. > > In meanwhile, it should be relatively simple to code script which does > ldapsearch from time to time and sends some e-mails. This script doesn't > have to run on the same server as IPA, only access to LDAP and some MTA > is required. > Yes, that is our current recommendation. There is a sample query in the docs IIRC. rob _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users