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.