On Mon, 31 May 2004, Gilles wrote: > how about using stock qmail, without ldap patches ?
Of course, this would be possible, but for one qmail-ldap is definitely the nicest packaged qmail-patch-collection around (big compliment to the authors!) and on the other hand we plan to use the LDAP-features in the future. Therefore my question is really an operational one: how could I turn off the LDAP server so qmail-ldap still feels ok? Thanks for your answer anyway! Thomas > > Le Vendredi 28 Mai 2004 14:25, Thomas Werschlein a �crit : > > Hello > > > > I know, it sounds sort of strange, but is it possible to run a > > qmail-ldap installation without a running LDAP-server? > > > > Right now, we have a perfectly working qmail-ldap installation, but > > since it is a dedicated mailman list-server, it has no entries in the > > LDAP-directory. Everything is a localdelivery via a virtualdomain > > mapped to the mailman user. > > > > Now I wonder if we could, for operational reasons, turn the > > LDAP-server off (every service you don't depend on is a good service). > > > > If I turn off the LDAP server right now, incoming mails stay in the > > queue and I get the following, perfectly reasonable log entry: > > > > "deferral: Unable_to_contact_LDAP_server._(#4.4.3)" > > > > How could I prevent qmail-lspawn to try to connect the LDAP-server > > alltogether? > > > > QLDAP_TIMEOUT only handles the failover to a second LDAP-server and > > LDAPSOFTOK only affects qmail-smtpd, right? > > > > Any hints are very welcome! > > > > Thanks > > Thomas > >
