OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
 
Re: Working Postfix-Ldap-Config?

From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 03:36:29 CDT


* Timo Boettcher <spidagmx.net> [030602 07:37]:
> I am not expecting this to be a performace-problem, given the low
> number of users on my server and the (compared to that) relativly high
> power of the machine i am using...
> But perhaps you can tell me what I should calculate in hardware for a
> machine running ldap+postfix+courier...

It all depends on your setup. A recent i686 will surely do.

> > Some people on the list argue that this should be the standard approach
> > for any kind of LDAP lookup.
> However, after the first quick glance over it, I get the impression
> that it just handles the extraction of LDAP-data from an Exchange/AD
> on the windows-side.
> Are there any scripts to do extract the ldap-data from an openldap
> server on a linux-machine around, too?

Not that I knew, but it shouldn't be to hard to build one yourself.

1. Construct the correct command line ldapquery that matches your LDAP
objects
2. Write the output into a file
3. Use the make script of the Postfix-w2k HOWTO to build a .db file for
Postfix.

HTH
prick

--
Patrick Koetter <pstate-of-mind.de>
http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/