[COLUG] Postfix or LDAP question

[Rob Funk]

William Yang wrote:
> Well, it depends.  You can always cache the results of some kind of
> probe against the SMTP service.... but you may want to just pull the
> information directly out of LDAP periodically and cache that, instead,
> or query against as needed if you trust the connection to and the
> processing power of the Exchange box.  ActiveDirectory's ldap key for
> e-mail addresses when used with recent Microsoft Exchange is, as I
> recall, 'mail'...

I believe Postfix can do an LDAP query for database lookups, if that's the 
way you want to go.

> Or, you can link against the LDAP service directly for usernames and
> passwords (think something like nss_ldap).

Using either nss_ldap or winbind takes you back to making those valid 
users on the Postfix box, which I would discourage.

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