On 19/10/01 17:44 +0200, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> The postfix LDAP_README mentions mailgeneralacceptingid, mailbox and
> maildrop as suggested attributes, but I don't see in which schema these
> are defined.
This is from a very early draft of the mail routing stuff.

> therefore it would be in the good of everyone if a common schema was used
> at least for the "normal" types of maps.
See misc.schema for the current status of mail routing.

> In postfix I can think of the following maps which can be accessed via
> ldap:
>
> aliases
> transport
> access
> canonical | sender_canonical | recipient_canonical
> mydestination
>
> Is there really no common LDAP directory/attribute structure which can be
> used to cover the needs of most of the aforementioned MTAs?
None defined yet. Again, do other MTAs use this format? Exim may, but I
don't know about qmail and sendmail.

> I admit to having little knowledge of LDAP, but have read several HOWTOs,
> and bought a book on LDAP, with another on order, so maybe I'm missing
> something. However I'm curious as to others perception of this topic, and
> whether it would be worth trying to come up with a common
> MTA-independent schema. This would certainly simplify the LDAP
> documentation, a lot of which seems rather lacking in this area.
What we need is a RFC for this. We definitely need a MTA-independent
schema. However, of all attributes, only the end user attributes
(mailbox for the user, which email ids to accept the mail for, and which
machine to deliver to can be considered standardizable). All other
things are MTA specific, and as such may not be standardizable.

Devdas Bhagat
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