--On Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:13 PM -0500 "Terry L. Inzauro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
so, what you all are telling me is that there has been no "standard" accepted for this task? is the ldap world "controlled chaotic" directory structure? so, what i need to do is figure out which attributes my mail software (postfix and dovecot imap) needs to function and map those attribues to just about any other attribute in an existing schema such as any of(or a combination of) the schemas that come with the directory server of my choice(openldap). does this sound correct or am i missing the picture? quanah, you seem very well versed in this area....is that your recommendation?
LDAP is designed on the idea that you have the flexibility to extend the basic schema's that exist to meet your needs. That is why Stanford has a very extended schema. It allows us to use LDAP to meet our needs.
We use Postfix (and in the past sendmail) at Stanford, and we simply tell those programs which attributes to use in the LDAP tree for mail routing. Any well designed LDAP application should let you configure it with the LDAP attributes to use for various tasks. Of course, not all applications are well designed.
--Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the SUBJECT of the message.
