Mitch,

what is it you are trying to accomplish? If you are trying to verify users =
on the Imailbox (probably the netscape box too but I'd don't know that one)=
 you can export the users from imail and import them into a map file for =
checking valid accounts on your imail box. You can then script it to run =
on a frequency of your choosing to add/remove accounts as they change.

If you're looking for something else, sorry for the response...

bob

On Friday, March 26, 2004 7:58 AM, Mitch Planck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm working on setting up a second imgate server and I'm think about what =
I
>want it to do a little differently from the first one. I'd like to have =
the
>server do SASL and TLS but I'm having trouble figuring out how best to do
>this.
>
>We currently have two mail servers, one running imail and one running
>netscape mail server, both on windows. We eventually plan to get rid of =
the
>netscape server, which has been around for years and is no longer =
supported
>- that won't be for another 6 months to a year though.=20
>
>Both servers have ldap servers built in and the imail server is using an
>external database (MS SQL server) as its user database. Since odbc =
support
>for FreeBSD (what I'm using for postfix) is limitted to non-existant I =
don't
>want to go that way. That would only work for the one user database =
anyway.
>What I would like to do is have postfix do an ldap lookup to verify the
>username/password. It would have to be able to know which server to look =
at
>depending on the domain and then verify with that ldap database. Some of =
the
>passwords are in plaintext, some are SHA hashes.
>
>I've been looking through various ldap and sasl how-tos to try and find
>something that will work but I haven't been able to yet.
>
>Does anyone know of one or if what I want is possible? Keep in mind I'm =
not
>a linux guru. I started with Windows, moved to Novell admin, then Windows
>server admin, then Cisco router admin, with linux thrown in as needed. I
>built a CVS server for a client, an MRTG server for us, and a couple =
others
>but that's it. I'm getting better with FreeBSD and like it but much about
>the linux-variant OSs still is unknown to me.
>
>Best regards and thanks in advance,
>Mitch Planck
>ias.net
>
>P.S. Kyle Dent's postfix book from O'Reilly is good but they did a major
>misprint and it's missing pages 42-80 or so. Wait until mid-April to buy =
it
>if you want it. I look forward to Ralf and Patrick's postfix book coming =
out
>in June as well.
>
>


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