Re: ldap and pop

[Jan-Piet Mens <jpm@Retail-SC.com>]

You might want to look at Perdition (http://www.us.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/) which is a POP3/IMAP4 proxy, which supports LDAP.

	-JP


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Eric Lackey wrote:

> > This is more about pop than ldap but I think that maybe someone on this
> > list has tried to do what I am trying and could probably help.  By reading
> > the subject you might assume that I am trying to authenticate pop users to
> > an ldap directory.  Actually that was the easy part.  I work for an ISP,
> > so I have a few different mail servers at my location.  I am using
> > sendmails ldap functions to route incoming mail to various mail servers at
> > my location, 3 different mail servers to be exact.  So the mail comes to
> > the main server (mail.domain.com, for instance) and it checks ldap to find
> > if it needs to forward to one of the other 2 servers (mail2.domain.com or
> > mail3.domain.com) or just drop it off at localhost.  That part is working
> > fine.  The problem is that I want my users to be able to enter
> > mail.domain.com on their mail clients for outgoing (SMTP) mail as well as
> > incoming (POP) mail.  I am trying to find a way to have a pop server like
> > ipop3d check the ldap server to find out which pop server the client is
> > supposed to get its mail and forward the user to that pop server on
> > another machine.  I am trying to do this because we often add, change, and
> > remove mail servers from our network.  I do not want my customers to have
> > to change their pop settings on their mail clients every time that a
> > change is made.  I want LDAP to hold all of that information instead.  If
> > anyone want's me to explain any further or in any more detail, I would be
> > happy to.
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > Eric Lackey
> > ISDN-Net Operations
> > eric@isdn.net
>
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