Sure you can and it makes very good sense to do it, I just set it up and we went live today.
This is how my mail server is configured - Sendmail requires SMTP AUTH for relaying using SASLv2(plain/login) over TLS, saslauthd uses the ldap auth_mech to connect to ldap(bdb backend) which contains the authentication information besides other things. So its not sendmail thats using ldap for authentication(maps are a different story). Sendmail uses sasl which in turn uses ldap. You don't even need to compile sendmail w/ ldap support unless you want to store aliases and other maps in ldap. As far as I know postfix is the only MTA that supports ldap v3 binds. For IMAP I am using Cyrus imapd. My setup is probably an overkill for the 15 users I have but soo far its been performing really well and I have had no reason to complain. At first it was quite some work as I haven't setup mail in 3 years and the fact that everything is in a non standard location made compiling on RH9 a pain but it was well worth the while. Best, Akshay On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:11:55PM +0530, Chetan Dutta wrote: > > has anybody configured sendmail for smtp auth with saslauthd/pwcheck and > > ldap. > > Which one are you trying? You can't possibly be doing all three... > > -- > Joe Rhett > Senior Geek > Meer.net > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html