apache+mod+ssl W/SquirrelMail, I run this config today on a 4 node cluster. The ldap client libs need to be installed on the MTA (node) boxes, not the directory server. No local accounts need to be created except for the user that qmail runs as.
Read: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ http://www.mrzesty.net/index.html?frame=http://braindump.MrZesty.net/qmail-ldap.html and the one that helped me the most http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/qmail-ldap/installing.html On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:30, BsD JuNkiE wrote: > when setting up an Qmail-LDAP MTA does the actual LDAP server/s have > to > be installed on the MTA/s or just the LDAP server libaries? I am > reading how to do this > and the docs. are showing the ldap server/s on a different standalone > machine but the instructions on setting it up says OpenLdap needs to > be installed before compiling the qmail-ldap MTA code. I thought the > whole purpose of using an LDAP solution was to have a central database > of users and if the LDAP server/s has to be present on every MTA then > its not very central....but i am probably misunderstanding the > documentation. What i am needing to accomplish is to have a email > system where the MTA /s "only one for now but maybe a backup/s in the > future" stores incoming mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I want the > messages to be stored on the MTA or a network attached drive without > actually having to have a local user accounts on the MTA boxen. I was > wanting to setup another box providing IMAP/POP access to the users > accounts on the MTA for retrieval and another box for webmail access > VIA apache+mod+ssl W/SquirrelMail. > > > > |-------Ldap1-server > |-------Ldap2-server > | > > |-----------------------------------------------| > | | > |Aapche+SSL > | |IMAP/POP > Webmail > Qmail-LDAP MTA-1 > | > | > Qmail-LDAP MTA-2 > > > What i need is to have the Qmail MTA store incoming messages to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] somehow to a /maildir and i assume it stores it on > the MTA or do i have to setup another server for this? Now i don't > want > to have to run to the MTA machine and create a local user account > every time i need to add a user, so can i somehow add the user to the > database and have the MTA create a maildir automatically. I guess what > i dont > understand is how to do this without local accounts being present on > the MTA machine. Our team is trying to build a email system for about > 1000 > users currently and should scale to meet a anticipated 3000 in the > future...this is > why i was wanting the LDAP solution. > > So far i have downloaded the qmail-1.03 and qmail-ldap patch, patched > the qmail code and installed openssl. > I have removed Sendmail, and was going to run make for qmail but i saw > the documentation said Ldap must be installed > and thats what i wanted to ask about. Also being a newbie to qmail is > there any special config options that you guys recommend > before i run build. > > thanks in advance for any help, as i surly appreciate it. > > Have a fantastic evening. -- Kent Brake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
