----- Original Message ----- From: "Cowles, Steve" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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
