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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