On Apr 1, 2012, at 9:26 PM, jeffrey j donovan wrote: > greetings > > im setting up an authenticated relay for some users. using SASL/TLSv1 dovecot > auth, pam. > for local users things work fine. but im getting myself confused on how to > incorporate ldap users hosted on a remote system. i understand i need to > create a virtual alias map for those users. > but passing the remote authentication has me chasing my tail. the user > mailboxes are not stored locally, only system users get local delivery. so I > can use transport maps once the user has authenticated. > Im using a debian system, and the docs are outdated compared to the files > installed for dovecot. ( dovecot.conf --> !include conf.d/*.conf ). > there are so many options that Im not able to follow a clear path. many > tutorials I have read start great, but then have gaps, or they are version > dependent. > > I have read that could modify PAM to use ldap for credentials. Many of the > docs I have read use cyrus for authentication. but this seems a bit off > track, or is it a viable way to allow ldap users to relay ? > > can someone point me in the right direction. Do i need to adjust, postfix to > read ldap, or dovecot, or sasluthd, or pam , or all of the above. > > tnx in advance. > > -j
simpilar than I was making it out to be. i needed to compile dovecot with ldap. then the proper docs and example files became available and made sense. thanks for not flaming me :) -j
