Pat,
LDAP is an informational service, somewhat like the older Whois service,
except it can provide more information. But it cannot provide any more than
is entered for each user. By default (see Attributes tab for a user), this
is their email address and name (the stuff you entered when the account was
created, usually), 4 fields all together (pg 133!). Only when you enter
more, will it be available (pg 134). Custom fields can also be added.
Note that if you have the user right, "Hide from information services',
enabled, IMail can have a lot of stuff, but it won't answer an LDAP request
for that user.
So the question is:
Do you want to run the LDAP service and provide information about some or
all of your users? Then which users? And then, what data (beyond the basic
stuff) should be in the DB?
Of course, all those people will need to know that you have an LDAP server,
and how to access it (using their email client, typically), and then how to
update any data (if you allow them to, again an IMail setting). Could mean a
bit of work for the old troll teaching the 'farmers' fancy 'lectronic'
stuff.
Basically, if you don't enter the data, then even if they know all about
LDAP, they won't get anything beyond the basics. But if you don't even run
the LDAP service, then no one can get anything.
Oh, lastly, if you are running LDAP service, be aware that ANYONE can gain
access to it, unless you limit requests to only those IP addresses you want
to have access. Typically this is done at your router or firewall.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: Re(2): [IMail Forum] imail issue
<snip...snip>
> i have a question that has been bothering me about LDAP and Imail:
>
<snip...snip>
> point i'm making is: p136 in the manual (being stupid i read
> manuals, it helps mitigate my stupidity) tells me that if i do what i did
> (and i did) that i may want to populate the ldap directory. does this mean
> that my 6500 hippies, yuppies, and farmers now are able to see server side
> info on the client side? there's some things they don't really need to
know
> about each other...
<and snip again...>
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