I missed a feature that Netscape Messaging Server had. That was
the ability to create email distribution lists based on an LDAP URL.
This is extremely handy for managing departmental mailing lists. In
smaller shops, it's not a huge deal, but I found that once my company
was numbering in the 20's and 30's of employees, it was getting harder
to keep everyone's address books updated.
Part of our new-hire procedure involves an HR person filling out new
a new account request form, and submitting it to the appropriate system
managers who create accounts. One step is adding the person to our
LDAP directory (openldap running on RH 6.1). I built a couple of
nice little PHP scripts that interact with openldap to do the add,
modify and delete requests, so this was the remaining piece of the
puzzle.
We're using postfix for our mail software, but as long as you can manage
to shove an RFC822 formatted message into this script's STDIN, it should
work fine.
It's working great here, out of the /etc/postfix/aliases map.
A typical alias looks something like:
finance: |/usr/local/bin/financelist
I'd appreciate any feedback you all can offer.
The script is available from:
http://www.jasons.org/hacks/ldaplist.txt
Prereqs:
Perl 5.005 or higher
libnet
Net::LDAPapi
MailTools
Those last 3 are available from your friendly neighborhood CPAN site.
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jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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