I am very new to LDAP. Could someone tell me what is the concept of LDAP? I know it is light directory authentication protocal but exactly what it is for?
Is this some service service I can enable to verify if the user exists in the domino directory before the domino server accepts emails from the Internet? There is a lot of virus these days try to guess people’s email address. Does LDAP service help in that manner?
Thanks a lot!!
Lily
Subject: LDAP service
LDAP = Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Check out this very good book if you want to learn more about the LDAP standard and how to deploy it:
“Understanding and Deploying Directory Services”, by Howes, Smith and Good
ISBN# 1578700701
You can find it pretty cheap if you use Bigwords.com
Subject: LDAP service
Hi,
We use LDAP in exactly the scenario you have depicted.
We use MIMESweeper SMTP as an Internet Gateway, Content Scanner and Addresses are verified using LDAP lookups.
I’m not sure if you would use this if Domino is configured as the MX Mail Exchanger. It is more for use with a Non Domino SMTP Gateway that doesn’t understand Domino Directory but can work with LDAP.
Subject: RE: LDAP service
Hi Ashley,Thank you very much. I thought LDAP is another authentication for Domino users to access domino servers. In my case, we have a Domino server to host all mail files and handle internal mail communication. And, we have another Domino SMTP server to handle all Internet emails. Do I really need to use LDAP service?
Subject: RE: LDAP service
You might want your Domino server to be an LDAP client to look up to another LDAP for web authentication or have Domino be the primary LDAP server for your company for other proceses to use.