Greetings, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Victor Duchovni <victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:01:16PM -0430, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > >> Of course, postfix support "plug-ins" >> architecture, so, it is likely that you just need to add the ldap >> part. As for Mac: I don't know exactly how to do it, but in the worst >> of the cases, it would involved recompiling postfix (or, maybe, >> compile the plug-in). I don't know how to do it, because I use >> Debian, and I just had to install the package: postfix-ldap, and >> everything was just fine after that. > > The plug-ins you speak of are a Debian-specific feature, they are not > part of the official Postfix release and not available on most platforms.
So.... most platforms "statically" link ldap support with postfix? I mean, most platform actually support dynamic linking, so, just like it is done in Debian (and Ubuntu, and likely on other distros), that it just adds the file dict_ldap.so , it should be possible to do something similar on most architectures (DLL's on Windows, for example). I have seem similar things on Solaris too (.sl, if memory serves me). So, I would say that:most platforms support this. Off course, there could be a problem if you don't have *the same* compiler used to build the already installed version, it may be just easier to recompile postfix (or find a package for your platform that includes ldap support). I have not needed to compile postfix myself (but that would not be a problem anyway, I have been around unix systems for over 14 years now), but to tell the truth: I'm thankful to have a distro that "just works", it saves me time when it comes to basic config, and leave me plenty of "extra" time to work on things that are more important. I mean, why "build the wheel", if it is already done, unless, off course, I believe I can do it better, or I need a "better" wheel (but that's not the case most of the time). And I really believe that people should read the docs, he didn't even knew "who" provided SASL (cyrus by default, and I actually use dovecot), that means that he didn't read the SASL readme on the postfix's site! I mean, postfix has one of the best documentation for any software I have ever used (I could only compare it to PostgreSQL's one), and people just don't use it! come on! I just can't understand. Sincerely, Ildefonso Camargo
