Date: 15 Feb 2001 14:49:28 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@OutBounderInc.com> To: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> Cc: "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mail Server with LDAP? Message-ID: <lfwvarohfb.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: "Hudson, Henrik H."'s message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:30:21 -0600" References: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B10459979@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:30:21 -0600, "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> said: Hudson> I want to get a mail server running that will do user auth via Hudson> a LDAP server which will allow me get around the problem of Hudson> A)Creating local user accounts and B) having the user at one Hudson> domain not be able to have the same name as a user at another Hudson> domain. or would a MySQL server work better? safer? easier? Hudson> The POP server to handle this? QPopper works via a PAM module Hudson> and LDAP, I think? What else? Hudson> Need an IMAP server too. I set up something like this recently, not using LDAP, but with a suite of packages based on qmail. Works well and you can build it all from the ports collection. No user accounts on the system, except the one under which the MTA runs, and the one under which the virtual mail manager runs. qmail mta vpopmail modifies qmail for virtual domains qmailadmin web interface to manage domains sqwebmail web-based mua Check www.inter7.com. They talk about which POP and IMAP servers you can use. It's rather surprising how quick this was to get up and running. Instead of using a central LDAP directory, the account info is kept in CDB (DJB's constant-time platform-neutral gdb-like database). If I was gonna build something huge, with lots of separate machines for POP/IMAP, SMTP, etc, I'd have to go with a central directory -- LDAP. But for a single machine handling a few thousand users this is more than enough. vpopmail apparently can do LDAP stuff but I haven't looked into it yet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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