On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, sysadmin wrote:
> I'm attempting to set the
>
> local_domains
>
> variable in my /usr/exim/configure by way of an LDAP lookup.
I wouldn't recommend this, unless you have the LDAP server on the same
host as Exim, and your volumes of mail are low. Exim tests domains for
being local an awful lot.
> ie. local_domains =
> ldapm;ldap::///ou=visps,o=test.com?vispdomainpattern?sub?(vispstatus=active)
>
> Lets say the standard LDAP query (when run in a brower):-
>
> ldap::///ou=visps,o=test.com?vispdomainpattern?sub?(vispstatus=active)
>
> returns two entries:-
>
> somedomain.com
> anotherdomain.com
You have misunderstood the way lookups work in lists like local_domains.
The value returned by the lookup is not used. Exim is merely checking
the existence of the "key" in a file. Take a simpler case
local_domains = lsearch;/some/file
The contents of the file are just a list of domains - no data is needed.
Similarly, if you construct a query for a database, as long as the query
succeeds, the current domain matches the list.
You need to construct an LDAP query that involves $key (which will
contain the domain being tested). I'm not an LDAP person, but it seems
to me that you need to add something like
vispdomainpattern=$key
somewhere in there. (And abandon ldapm.)
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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