I beg to differ, LDAP takes complexity AWAY by centralization of
account management for your site. At our site the same database is
used for authentication of SMTP/POP3/RADIUS/SqWebmail, and can be
administered with an LDAP browser from anywhere on the network. I have
yet to see any other authentication mechanism which provides the same
flexibility. Also it was very easy to set-up with OpenLDAP. The only
problem was SqWebmail didn't support MD5 hashed passwords initially.
Also, you can write simple PHP scripts which will take care of managing
accounts through an LDAP database. Besides, a lot of questions on this
mailing list are in reference to problems with
qmail+vpopmail+sqwebmail+blah.
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:22:10PM +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> If you don't plan to run a really huge mailserver (say thousands of
> student accounts), there's no need for the added complexity LDAP
> brings into the equation when compared to standard CDB, IMHO. vpopmail
> will take, in any case, care of the permissions and will deliver the
> mail under its own uid. Comparing to every other daemon I've ever
> used, qmail/vpopmail
> is the one which needs the lowest maintenance. It just works. Exactly
> what you want in school. (or are you using courier-mta? I have no
> experience witht that one).
>
