<quote who="Daniel Gibby"> > Hi, Hi,
> > We are somewhat new to OpenLDAP and are planning on how we'll use it for > our business. This thread may be more suitable for the general LDAP mailing list: http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/mailinglist.html Nothing, as yet, seems directly related to OpenLDAP since you appear to be at the "understanding LDAP" stages. > > We have a few different uses we plan on, but one in particular that I > have a question about. > > We already have our email server setup to run virtual domain and aliases > with a MySQL backend. > We have a few thousand email addresses at one domain and we pretty much > won't need more meta-information related to them besides what is already > in our database. > > A spam firewall appliance sits in front of our email server. The spam > firewall supports an LDAP lookup for email addresses. > > Since we already use MySQL for the backend of our email addresses, what > would be the ways we should consider integrating OpenLDAP to support the > spam firewall appliance? Switch MySQL out for OpenLDAP. Put your virtual domains and aliases in there and then point your Spam/Firewall appliance at it. > > I'm wary of using back-sql since all I ever see when searching through > the OpenLDAP archives are somewhat old issues and lack of support. Not lack of support, mainly inproper use of back-sql or misunderstanding its intended purpose... > If I'm wrong about shying away from that, let me know. > > It seems to me that we need a very simple implementation for this part > of our business. Our schema only needs to include the email address, > that's it. > > For other areas of our business we'd want to setup something more > extensive on another server, but what would you see as options for > setting up what we be required for this appliance lookup? > > Thanks for your input! I'll post questions about our other uses or > issues of OpenLDAP in another thread. > Again, these discussion items are better suited to the general LDAP list: http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/mailinglist.html Thanks, Gavin. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 279484 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 824887 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions(tm). http://www.suretecsystems.com/
