On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:13:51 -0600, Wyl Newland <wylnewland at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:39:56 -0600, slushpupie at gmail.com > <slushpupie at gmail.com> wrote: > > Beware though, every lookup will generate an ldap query. > > Because mail accounts change infrequently, why not generate postfix > (non-LDAP) validation tables from LDAP. This could certainly be done > by a cron job. Perhaps on-the-fly updates to postfix tables can be > done whenever the LDAP database records (under LDAP's mail schema) are > modified. Postfix is in want of a lookup table or a list (depends on the entry). It was made generic enough to support a plugin-like interface to allow people to do what they want. To postfix, ldap is the same as mysql, postgresql, or whatever (well, mostly) In the case of ldap, I expect the ldap database to be as correct as it can be all the time. So of course I want the mail server to see the same data. So I created an ldap slave on the mail server that only the mail server uses. Since all updates to the ldap master get replicated, no one else will notice the extra load. Sure, it could be possible write a perl script that dumps the data out of ldap into a hash and run it from a cron job. It just leaves the possibility of the data being out of sync at some point. Jay -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/