> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Natxo Asenjo > Sent: 08 October 2008 15:29 > To: Postfix users > Subject: Re: LDAP_STRONG_AUTH_REQUIRED > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Paul Cocker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I'd like to automate the process if > > possible. I suppose I could setup an automated export and SFTP the > > file over, would avoid the undesirable nature of having > access to AD > > from the DMZ. > > Obviously we do not sit behind the server consoles to run the > scripts, the whole process is automated. > > Besides, if you run a script from the postfix server to ldap > AD, you have access to AD from the dmz. If you run it from > AD, and copy the recipients to the postfix server, you do not. > > The postfix server must have contact at one point or the > other with the exchange server, right? Otherwise there is no > way you can relay the messages :-) > > I would much rather use putty at a windows server to copy > (securely) a file to a unix host than installing the > net::ldap module at the unix host with possibly a few > dependencies from your package manager. > Specially if you do not know how to use the Net::LDAP module > > But hey, your network, your rules :-) > > -- > Natxo Asenjo >
No, I concur with your reasoning, it just hadn't occurred to me to automate things in this direction. I think I became too bull-headed about making this LDAP thing work ;) TNT Post is the trading name for TNT Post UK Ltd (company number: 04417047), TNT Post (Doordrop Media) Ltd (00613278), TNT Post Scotland Ltd (05695897), TNT Post North Ltd (05701709), TNT Post South West Ltd (05983401), TNT Post Midlands Limited (6458167)and TNT Post London Limited (6493826). Emma's Diary and Lifecycle are trading names for Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd (02556692). All companies are registered in England and Wales; registered address: 1 Globeside Business Park, Fieldhouse Lane, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 1HY.
