Re: [Exim] Exim, mac os x server, and netinfo

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Chuck,
    I don't know if Exim will do that (I've never seen someone try a script such as that), however you might be able to do it via a procmail script. A better solution would be moving your infrastructure to a standard LDAP setup (or something that supports LDAP queries), since that is the industry standard and support would be less problematic as time goes on.

----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Kenney
To: David Chait ; exim-users@???
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim, mac os x server, and netinfo


Using a script like the one below, is there a way in the exim config file, when it receives mail for $MYGROUP, to run the script, and send the message to the results of the loop (being the users in the group)? This would effectively do what I'm needing, unless someone has a more elegant solution, and would allow the admins after I leave to continue using Apple's tools to create users and groups.

where '$MYGROUP' is the group name.

if you want to loop over a result like this, in tcsh you can do it
like:

foreach i (`niutil -readprop / /groups/$MYGROUP users`)
echo $i
end

Where I have 'echo $i', you can put in anything to make use of the
username as $i.

thanks,
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On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 05:11 PM, David Chait wrote:

    Chuck,
    Short answer is no, not natively. Netinfo as I understand it (I'm a
    Linux/solaris/win guy so bear with me) is a propriatary Apple LDAP like
    system for managing users/groups. The following provider
    http://www.padl.com/Articles/LDAPNetInfoBridgeNotice.html offers a Netinfo
    to LDAP bridge like program which should allow Exim to make standard LDAP
    queries to your user list. That is the theory anyway, OSx isn't a big force
    in the server market, and I haven't seen a lot of development for netinfo
    yet at all.

    -David

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Chuck Kenney" <chuck@???>
    To: <exim-users@???>
    Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 2:26 PM
    Subject: [Exim] Exim, mac os x server, and netinfo

      I just finished compiling, installing, and configuring exim on our
      xserve running mac os x server 10.2.4. After finishing, I realized
      that exim does not check the netinfo (and/or workgroup manager) groups
      for delivery, only the users. I have about 15 groups with 30 users
      each, and some of them change fairly often.

      I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make exim consult the
      netinfo groups and redirect messages to the users in that group.

      thanks!
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      Chuck Kenney
      sales / support / service
      h a d d o c k
      316.683.5211
      800.432.5211

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