Developers of Sympa

[Ludovic Marcotte <address@concealed>]

Hi,

I've modified (with my good friend Francis Lachapelle) the 
alias_manager.pl file (included in Sympa 4.1.1) to be fully 
LDAP-aware. When a list is created or deleted, the corresponding mail 
aliases are added or removed from the LDAP server. This allows lists 
to be automatically created w/o having to deal with any alias files.

Here's the script:

<alias_manager.pl>

The LDAP implementation is fully configurable (to reflect the 
attributes one can use in his/her mail infrastructure).

I've mainly tested it together with Postfix 2.1. I defined two 
transport methods in master.cf like this:

sympa     unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
    flags=R user=sympa argv=/etc/smrsh/queue ${recipient}

sympabounce     unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
    flags=R user=sympa argv=/etc/smrsh/bouncequeue ${recipient}

and a transport_maps in main.cf to send mails matching the mail: 
attribute value to the corresponding transport method (if you need 
hints on how to configure such maps, email me). Such configuration 
allows, for example, to have MX:s deal with incoming mails and send 
filtered messages to a dedicated Sympa server.

This is the first version of the code, I will likely improve it in the 
future. I'm sending this mail to see if there's any interest in 
integrating such functionality in the standard Sympa code.

Comments are welcome.

Thanks,
        Ludo


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