authenticate LDAP to email server

[Robert Wild]

That's great thanks,

One thing tho I did a "ls /etc/dovecot" and I don't see a dovecot-ldap.conf

Do I need to create that file or install it via yum?

Thanks again for your help, very much appreciated

Rob

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Daniel Tröder" <troeder at univention.de>
Sent: ‎26/‎06/‎2015 07:20
To: "dovecot at dovecot.org" <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Subject: Re: authenticate LDAP to email server

Am 25.06.2015 um 22:36 schrieb robert k Wild:
> hi all,
> 
> first things first my version and config -
> 
> # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> 
> # OS: Linux 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.6 (Final)
> 
> auth_mechanisms = plain login
> 
> mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
> 
> mbox_write_locks = fcntl
> 
> passdb {
> 
>   driver = pam
> 
> }
> 
> protocols = imap pop3
> 
> service auth {
> 
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> 
>     group = postfix
> 
>     mode = 0666
> 
>     user = postfix
> 
>   }
> 
> }
> 
> ssl_cert = </etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
> 
> ssl_key = </etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
> 
> userdb {
> 
>   driver = passwd
> 
> }
> 
> -
> 
> i have installed dovecot+
postfix email server and a
> 
> LDAP server, if i create users on the LDAP server can dovecot pick up
> 
> the usernames and create a mailbox for the individual users
> 
> as atm
> 
> if i want to create an email address for users i add the user to the
> 
> email server and make a directory for the users mailbox and have to
> 
> chmod and chown
> 
> also just another question, can i set up mail groups on dovecot?
> 
> cheers
> 
> rob
> 
Hi Rob,

all you need to do is figure out what the attribute in your LDAP tree
is, that holds the email address. Then configure uris, dn, dnpass,
[tls*], base, scope, user_attrs, user_filter, iterate_attrs and
iterate_filter in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext and uncomment the
include line in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP/Userdb

Good luck
Daniel