> I  would  have  assumed  that Imail would have added it into the new
> user creation process to insert the default attributes into LDAP.

Hooking  the  SAM  side of the user creation process? Well, I guess my
expectations never strayed that far. :)

> It's supplied with Imail afterall and it would be nice if it were an
> option.  As it stands, LDAP is really no more than a bundled service
> with  one  lone  little utility that reads the Imail database to get
> some info.

That's  pretty much exactly what it is. But as far as interoperability
with  third-party  LDAP  SDKs,  OpenLDAP  is  vastly  superior  to the
homebrewed  LDAP  service  that  used  to come with IMail, and it's at
least  equivalent to the LDAP APIs of other mail suites. Ipswitch made
a  smart strategic step in bundling the widely-respected OpenLDAP with
the  suite. Just don't expect custom OS- or product-centric hooks into
it. IMail uses the standard LDAP API, plus reading/writing the startup
conf.

> How would you suggest adding aliases to AD? Manually create contacts
> for each of them?

I would maintain the aliases in AD using a multi-valued attribute like
proxyAddresses,  then run a script file to *push* the whole alias list
to  IMail.  That  way,  associated aliases are easy to look up from AD
U&C,  and  they'll  get  deleted along with user objects. As AD is the
"master," aliases will get removed from IMail on the next script run.

You could also use separate AD contact objects instead of multi-valued
attributes; the rest of the process would be the same.

--Sandy


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