fetchmail-users

[fetchmail-users] Using LDAP for user account information

[John <fet...@je...>]

Is there an extension to Fetchmail that allows users' email account 
details to be stored in their LDAP user profile and extracted by 
Fetchmail rather than storing them in a fetchmailrc file ?

Re: [fetchmail-users] Using LDAP for user account information

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

John <fet...@je...> writes:

> Is there an extension to Fetchmail that allows users' email account 
> details to be stored in their LDAP user profile and extracted by 
> Fetchmail rather than storing them in a fetchmailrc file ?

Not to my knowledge. You'd have to secure the LDAP database (or at least
the password records) tightly, because you'd have to put cleartext
passwords into the database -- unless you were trying certificate-based
authentication, that is.

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Matthias Andree

Re: [fetchmail-users] Using LDAP for user account information

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/18/07, John <fet...@je...> wrote:
> Is there an extension to Fetchmail that allows users' email account
> details to be stored in their LDAP user profile and extracted by
> Fetchmail rather than storing them in a fetchmailrc file ?

ISTR somebody else asked this before and the answer then was no.  The
problem is that you're usually only moving the admin problem from one
place to another.

Maybe if you said what you're trying to achieve somebody might be able to help.

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Re: [fetchmail-users] Using LDAP for user account information

[John <fet...@je...>]

Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 3/18/07, John <fet...@je...> wrote:
>   
>> Is there an extension to Fetchmail that allows users' email account
>> details to be stored in their LDAP user profile and extracted by
>> Fetchmail rather than storing them in a fetchmailrc file ?
>>     
>
> ISTR somebody else asked this before and the answer then was no.  The
> problem is that you're usually only moving the admin problem from one
> place to another.
>
> Maybe if you said what you're trying to achieve somebody might be able to help.
>
>   
I am building a server primarily for network users who won't have system
accounts. Their mail will just be delivered to an IMAP server that they
will log in to. All of their credientials are currently stored on LDAP
and it is working fine. I want to use Fetchmail to allow users to
request mail from external POP services and I want those users to be
able to enter the details via a web front end that updates their LDAP
profile. And then I want Fetchmail to get that configuration info for
each user from LDAP.

I was thinking in the most simplistic sense that the item in LDAP would
just be a line exactly link I would enter in fetchmailrc and that
fetchmail would just pull all such lines out of LDAP when reading its
fetchmailrc file.

Re: [fetchmail-users] Using LDAP for user account information

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/20/07, John <fet...@je...> wrote:
>
> I am building a server primarily for network users who won't have system
> accounts. Their mail will just be delivered to an IMAP server that they
> will log in to. All of their credientials are currently stored on LDAP
> and it is working fine. I want to use Fetchmail to allow users to
> request mail from external POP services and I want those users to be
> able to enter the details via a web front end that updates their LDAP
> profile. And then I want Fetchmail to get that configuration info for
> each user from LDAP.
>
> I was thinking in the most simplistic sense that the item in LDAP would
> just be a line exactly link I would enter in fetchmailrc and that
> fetchmail would just pull all such lines out of LDAP when reading its
> fetchmailrc file.

Ah, you'll have to write a script to do this I'm afraid.

Do keep in mind that if you run a single fetchmail instance then if
one of the servers being polled times out it'll impact all the other
polls as it's single threaded.  You may want to give some careful
thought to how to minimise that (the normal route of running fetchmail
as each user obviously won't work for you).

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