[Pkg-exim4-users] Exim and LDAP

Neil S. Briscoe neil.briscoe at censornet.com
Tue Jun 24 22:45:35 UTC 2008


I imagine you have separate routers to look up the entries in the alias 
file and those in the LDAP tree.

Simply make the router that looks up the alias file the first one 
called, and allow it to fail if it finds nothing.  That should do what 
you've asked.

Regards
Neil

Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Currently we use LDAP for (smtp) authentication, through pam. This works 
> fine. Due to the fact I am testing a few things on LDAP I just noticed 
> that if LDAP isn't working right exim is unable to lookup a user as 
> being a known user and rejects the recipient. I have an alias file with 
> every user and all aliases. Is there a way to make this alias file the 
> primary way to find if a user/alias is valid, only to fail back to LDAP 
> if it can't find it.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeroen
> 
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