I presume it's not going to be too awkward to change the authentication method when you've finished? We use LDAP for authenication here as do more and more sites.
My initial goal is to embed the AUTH transaction itself in the core qpsmtpd modules and then provide only a couple of sample authentication backends.
Ok. You seem to be planning a choice of authentication backend? I understand that I'll probably have to submit the LDAP backend.
You got it. If my LDAP directory wasn't inside the firewall, I'd be doing that myself (Novell). I'm more comfortable with having a nearline query to the user database, which makes the MySQL backend fine for me; I actually populate that using LDAP into the Novell directory now.
John
