--On Friday, December 05, 2008 5:15 PM -0500 Bill Cole
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is perfectly valid and
reasonable to use "" as the root of your LDAP tree. We do that at
Zimbra, for example, in part because we have plenty of clients who run
hosted mail servers, and need to support multiple domains.
That is the most helpful thing I've read in many days of combing through
software docs and RFC's and mailing list archives and the thin collection
of relevant things Google could find for me. Thank you!
You're welcome. :)
I installed Zimbra just to see what exactly it was doing and it turns out
that my rushed analysis of why I was seeing breakage was wrong. The
Apache DS client and JXplorer see the Zimbra tree just fine, unphased by
the null root. Now I just have to figure out what the significant
differences are between the apparent mess I've created myself and the
clearly functional Zimbra structure or maybe just blow away my test
system altogether and do a cargo-cult cribbing from Zimbra, although that
would be unsatisfying.
(and since I'm essentially a mail geek, I also have to resist the
distraction of having just installed a shiny new mail system that I've
never played with before, but that's more of a personal problem...)
Enjoy the shiny new mail system, and if you have questions about the
configuration, feel free to ask. General openldap configuration questions
can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], of which I'm a member of
course. If you have Zimbra specific questions, let me know.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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