Re: [exim] LDAP lookup over SSL

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John W. Baxter
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] LDAP lookup over SSL
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, John W. Baxter wrote:

> OpenLDAP seems to provide support for ldaps: URLS using the port 636
> mechanism. A look through Google (while dodging LDAPS, the Lego Design and
> Programming System) leaves me dubious about support in OpenLDAP for
> STARTTLS, although
> man -S3 ldap
> seems encouraging.
>
> Next question is what parts of this does Exim support in making LDAP
> lookups. Presumably, the answer is revealed in the source.


And in the documentation. :-) Grep for ldaps. Are you sure that there is
a specification for STARTTLS in LDAP? I thought it was just an SMTP
thing.


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