Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > But why does qmail have to be patched to use LDAP? Why not use a script
> > which extracts user information from the LDAP database, puts it in passwd
> > format, and feeds it to qmail-pw2u? Then cron it every hour or something.
> > Voila,
>
> Better yet, why not make a replacement qmail-getpw? That's how I built an
> LDAP-aware qmail a couple of years ago.
But if the LDAP query fails in qmail-getpw-ldap, you have to either defer or
bounce. With qmail-users built periodically from the server, the information
is always available -- and if the build process fails, you leave the old
qmail-users db in place, so deliveries continue normally.
Charles
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