[SunHELP] Reg: Ldap

[Andy Bastien]

On Fri Jan 18, a day that will live in infamy, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> >    I have a query ,can we use LDAP to authenticate sendmail users ,which
> is
> > running in solaris ,as LDAP is on Windows 2k ,anyone has worked or has
> idea
> > ,can help me in this.
> >
> 
> There is a wacked-out patch/mod/something for Sendmail that allows it to do
> LDAP lookups.  HOwever, I only know for certain that it runs on the Linux
> version of Sendmail.  I also know that it doesn't run very well there.  It's
> slow, it crashes, it never shuts down properly, and god help you if the LDAP
> database hiccups for *any* reason at _all_...
> 
> If you want to do LDAP lookups for email, I strongly suggest that you look
> elsewhere.  qmail is a much more stable, and faster, LDAP+email solution.
> I'm certain there are others as well...
> 


Sendmail has had built-in LDAP support for both authentication and
routing since 8.10.  Please RTFM before making these types of
comments.  There is information about using LDAP on
http://www.sendmail.net ; just dig through the articles section.