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Re: Win 2k ADS as LDAP Server and OpenLDAP



hello ralf,

[sorry ralf, mail has not been send to the list]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:43:52AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> This is some sort of interoperability question. Postfix (MTA) links
> against the OpenLDAP libraries, so I thought this may be the place to
> ask:
> 
> One of the basic problems of a mail relay in the DMZ is that this
> relay never knows if "invalidaddress@mydomain.com" is actually valid
> or invalid.
> 
> This is where local_recipient_maps comes into play. In theory,
> local_recipient_maps would simply query the Win 2k ADS in the internal
> network for "invalidaddress@mydomain.com" and make it's decision based
> on that.
> 
> Did ANY of you do that before? Is it feasible? Can Postfix (the
> openldap libraries) query an Win 2k ADS via LDAP at all?

sure. at least the libraries do work very well. you should just need to
query:

ldapsearch -h adstest -LLL sAMAccountName=gd mail
SASL/GSSAPI authentication started
SASL SSF: 56
SASL installing layers
dn: CN=gd,CN=Users,DC=adslab,DC=de
mail: gd@suse.de

bye,
guenther

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