Email question

[Jake McHenry]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cowles, Steve" <steve at stevecowles.com>
To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:54 AM
Subject: RE: Email question


> John Arthur wrote:
> >
> > WOW Talk about doing it the hardway........
> >
> > I think you need to take a serious look at LDAP mail routing in
> > Sendmail.
> >
> > I recently setup LDap routing on a businesses front end MX mail
> > servers (Sendmail) and their rejected bounces went from 3000 a day
> > down to 5.
> >
> > With LDAP mail routing all mail is rejected at the MX server unless
> > it's for a legitimate user and the best part is once you have LDAP
> > configured it's trivial to maintain.
> >
> > Oh! and LDAP is case insensitive.
> >
> > John
>
> I agree. Implementing LDAP is by far a better solution. In fact, I
currently
> use LDAP at my end to populate my access file through an hourly cronjob.
> This is by design. I chose not to configure my MTA to query my LDAP server
> for each inbound e-mail. It queries a local database which contains the
same
> information.
>
> FWIW: I posted the access table example above for the benefit of the OP to
> answer his question. Yes, what I showed is the "hardway" (as noted in a
> previous reply), but my goal was to give him a basic example of what will
be
> required to configure sendmail to reject unknown recipients without
issuing
> a bounce (hopefully in a test environment). How the OP ultimately chooses
to
> implement this in the future will be based on his current infrastructure
and
> requirements - which he has not specified. Hopefully, he can implement an
> LDAP solution. If not...
>
> Steve Cowles
>
>
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what do I have to do to implement LDAP? I believe I installed many packages
that included LDAP. here is what I have:

openldap-2.0.27-8
nss_ldap-202-5
openldap-devel-2.0.27-8
php-ldap-4.2.2-17.2


Thanks,
Jake