LDAP instead of file base DB for SASL

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Lausch
I've just finished the first implementation to use LDAP instead of a berkely DB as a storage for user secrets. This should make it easier to let sendmail and cyrus share the same user database, if the MTA is running on another machine then the IMAP server. Also clusters should benefit. There ar

Re: How scalable is Cyrus? (and comparison with Courier)

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Lausch
On 19 Mar 2001 20:44:19 +0100, Prune wrote: > Michael Lausch wrote: > > > > > > I plan to do some IMAP proxy hacking on perdition so that i can distribute the > > mailbox across many servers. The currently implemented method in cyrus 2.x does > > not satisfy m

Re: How scalable is Cyrus? (and comparison with Courier)

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Lausch
On 19 Mar 2001 12:39:56 +, Barbara Greenwood wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently joined a project supporting & developing a web-based email > system which uses Cyrus (1.5.19) as the mail server. We currently have > nearly 100,000 accounts (not all of them active) - Cyrus is rapidly becoming > the

Re: sendmail config question for multiple domains.

2001-02-27 Thread Michael Lausch
On 26 Feb 2001 20:10:32 -0500, Peter M. Jansson wrote: > - Need to make sure that Cyrus can locate and read the virtusertable map, > which could mean several things, including making sure sendmail and Cyrus > are built with the same BerkeleyDB. If virtusertable is elsewhere (LDAP > routing?), th

sasldb in LDAP

2001-02-26 Thread Michael Lausch
maybe it's a security risk, but has anybody tried to keep the secrets normally stored in sasldb in an LDAP tree? i guess a rewrite of db_berkeley.c using ldap, calling it db_ldap.c, should be sufficient when access control to the LDAP tree can be enforced. this would allow the usage of AUTH authe