Hi Folks,
Sorry to bug you about it, I have managed to solve it, I found the error
it seems that it was a case of a bad base dn that I had entered into the
configure file. Quite sorry for wasting your time.
Cheers,
Aly.
-----
Aly S.P Dharshi
aly.dharshi@???
System Administrator ORS Servers
Student - University of Lethbridge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aly S.P Dharshi" <aly.dharshi@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: [Exim] LDAP Lookup Help
> Hi All,
>
> I hope that you are well, a few weeks I had sought your help on LDAP
> lookups which I have finally gotten around to doing, I seem to be running
> into trouble. Exim 3.34 is what I am using.
>
> I have the following in LDAP (Netscape v 4.1x where x=2 I think):
>
> uid=p-aly,ou=People,dc=email,dc=uleth,dc=ca
> uidnumber=8 #corresponds to mail:mail on RH linux 7.2
> gidnumber=12
> objectclass=top
> objectclass=posixAccount
> objectclass=shadowAccount
> objectclass=CourierMailAccount
> uid=p-aly
> cn=Aly Dharshi (P-ALY)
> homedirectory=/home/a/p-aly
> mail=p-aly@???
> quota=50M
>
> I have the following in my general section or main section of the
> configure file:
>
> ldap_default_servers = oberon.netsrv.uleth.ca:phobos.netserv.uleth.ca
> #HOME_DIR = ${lookup
ldap{user="uid=mailserver,ou=system,dc=uleth,dc=ca"
> pass=monkey \
>
>
ldap:///uid=${local_part},ou=People,ou=System,dc=uleth,dc=ca?homeDirectory?b
> ase?}{$value}fail}
>
> HOME_DIR = ${lookup
>
ldap{ldap://oberon.netsrv.uleth.ca:389/uid=${local_part},ou=People,ou=System
> ,dc=uleth,dc=ca? \
> homeDirectory?base?}{$value}fail}
>
>
> In my transport section I have:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> # file = /var/mail/$local_part
> maildir_format = true
> directory = HOME_DIR/Maildir
> # directory = /home/$local_part/Maildir
> directory_mode = 0700
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> # group = mail
> # mode = 0660
>
> I thought that I had it but well it seems that I am getting such
errors:
>
> 2002-01-12 11:29:58 16PSuk-0001gb-00 <= p-aly@???
> H=polaris.netsrv.uleth.ca [142.66.35.144] P=esmtp S=525
> id=Pine.LNX.4.33.0201121129480.6484-100000@???
> 2002-01-12 11:29:58 16PSuk-0001gb-00 == p-aly@???
T=local_delivery
> defer (-1): Expansion of "${lookup
>
ldap{ldap://oberon.netsrv.uleth.ca:389/uid=${local_part},ou=People,ou=System
> ,dc=uleth,dc=ca?homeDirectory?base?}{$value}fail}/Maildir" (file or
> directory name for local_delivery transport) failed: "lookup" failed and
> "fail" requested: LDAP search: no results
>
>
> As I also get a panic log, I can't have "no results" as there is an
> entry in ldap and the directory is and has been created by the correct
user
> and group: mail i.e the directory and Maildir is own by mail:mail for all
> users. Secondly even adding the trusted_users = mail setting I doubt if
that
> would help at all but I put it in anyways and uncommented the above
> group=mail in the transport and it doesn't help either. Also added
user=mail
> to make sure that the delivery takes place as mail:mail.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aly.
>
>
> -----
> Aly S.P Dharshi
> aly.dharshi@???
>
> System Administrator ORS Servers
> Student - University of Lethbridge
>
>
>
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