Re: [Exim] exim with exchange and ldap

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Author: Benjamin Ritcey
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To: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim with exchange and ldap
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 12:08, Balzi Andrea wrote:
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> Hi
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> We have made so that exim make from front-end to exchange verifying the
> validity of the addresses of destination with exchange through protocol
> LDAP.
> If the verification has outcome negative it rejects the mail.
> What succeeds if exchange it falls?
> The incoming mail they come rejected or withheld from exim until when
> exchange it returns active?
>


If the LDAP lookup fails, I believe they'll get a temporary error (4xx)
-- the sending host will retry later. I switched from live LDAP lookups
to a periodically generated flat-file to avoid this - if Exchange is
down, the mail just queues on my Exim servers.

HTH,

-b


> Andrea Balzi
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> Il primo agosto u.s ha preso ufficialmente avvio Arthis S.p.A. (Accenture e
> Rinascente Together In Services) a seguito del trasferimento da parte di
> Rinascente S.p.A. del già operante Centro Servizi interno. Arthis S.p.A. si
> sostituisce al precedentemente operante Centro Servizi nell'erogazione di
> tutte quelle attività prima a quest'ultimo afferenti.
>
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