postfix & openLDAP

paul_mat · 10-24-2005, 12:16 AM

hi there,

i'm trying to get postfix to get it's aliases from my OpenLDAP server. i've got O'Reilly's 'LDAP system administration' book infront of me and i've followed it to the letter.

in my /etc/postfix/main.cf i've added the following lines

alias_maps = ldap:ldapaliases

ldapalias_server_host = localhost
ldapalias_search_base = ou=people,dc=fedora,dc=directory,dc=server
ldapalias_scope = sub
ldapalias_query_filter = (uid=%s)
ldapalias_result_attribute = mail

and when i run the 'test command' it seams to work.

[root@fedora /]# postmap -q jack ldap:ldapalias
jack.law@fedora.directory.server

but i just don't understand how it's going to work, when i go to

http://fedora.directory.server/IlohaMail/

i can't login using my LDAP user/pass because it's authenticating against my unix accounts. so how can i send an e-mail from the user 'jack' and check if it came from the alias 'jack.law@fedora.directory.server'? how can i send an e-mail to 'jack.law@fedora.directory.server' and then check that it came?

also, i'm a webmin user and i love everything webmin.

when i go into the postfix module on webmin, then into the mail aliases section, it's empty?

and when i try and click on LDAP lookups it says.

It seems that LDAP is nonexistent in your Postfix system

any advice?

Berhanie · 10-27-2005, 11:33 AM

You can always telnet to port 25 and submit mail from 'jack' manually:

Code:

$ telnet localhost 25
EHLO localhost
MAIL FROM:<jack@domain>
RCPT TO:<me@domain>
DATA
test message
.

You might also see if you can make use of sendmail -bv.

As an aside, check out the LDAP README on the postfix site, since the grammar for ldap lookups through postfix has been streamlined.