Advice on AD setup

Hi,

First of all I need some comments on the following setup.

I have been running the MAIA system for the past 2 years
(vers 1.0.0.RC5)
and are planning to
upgrade to version 1.0.2. Som facts: we have 25.000 users on
exchange, 200
mail domains and
use postfix as MTA.

In our current setup we use auth_method = exchange, and
users login  with
their e-mail address.
To do this the e-mail address have to be identical to the
UPN
(UserPrincipalName ) in AD. I
have tried to convince the AD people doing this when
creating new users but
....things get more
and more messed up so I have to find another solution.

I have installed the new MAIA version (1.0.2) on a test
server to
investigate what is possible.
What I would like tio achieve is:

        when a user logs into the system they give their
e-mail address and
AD password. In most cases the user
        dont know what kind of attribute the e-mail adress 
have in the AD
system, and they dont care.
        ( many user have 2-10 adresses as smtpProxy and 1
connected with the
mail attribute)

       I have a table (MySql) I keep in sync with the AD
system. The table
have 2 fields:

            email    distinquishedName (dn)

Now when a users logon to the MAIA system given their email
and AD password,
I change the email to dn and
use that in the ldap_bind (auth_method = ldap). The
auth_ldap returns the
mail atribute which should be the
primary e-mail address. In the process of logging ind I LINK
all smtpProxy
to the primary as e.mail aliases.

Would that be an OK solution or do any have better ideas?


Regards and thanks

Peter Sørensen /University of Sothern Denmark/e-mail:
maspsrsdu.dk

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So...I'm running Maia 1.0.2 on SLES 10. I was just wondering
when users do all the training (such as telling Maia that
such and such is spam and what is not spam), where is all
that kept? Is that kept in the MySQL database that I have
Maia using? What about the current e-mails that are saved
and waiting to be decided whether they're spam or not by
users? What about all the blacklists and whitelists for the
domain or for a user? Where are all those kept?

The reason I'm asking is because I would like to set up my
system on DRBD and Heartbeat. My server (when I built it at
the time) has only one partition which is being used by root
and mounted to "/" to do everything. Well, in
order to set up DRBD, I would need to move my MySQL database
over to its own partition...but I can't resize the partition
as it's mounted as "/" The way I've normally
gotten around this was I would boot the server up to a
LiveDVD and resize it that way. Worked great on my test
servers. Problem being is that my main server is using a
RAID controller and the LiveDVD did not have drivers for it.
:(

So, now I'm wondering if my only option is to build up a
temporary server, move the database over to it (assuming
everything is kept there so my users and system won't lose
all their settings and stuff), and then rebuild the main
server with two separate partitions so that I can continue
with my DRBD setup.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Howard

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Howard Yuan wrote:
> So...I'm running Maia 1.0.2 on SLES 10. I was just
wondering when users do all the training (such as telling
Maia that such and such is spam and what is not spam), where
is all that kept? Is that kept in the MySQL database that I
have Maia using? What about the current e-mails that are
saved and waiting to be decided whether they're spam or not
by users? What about all the blacklists and whitelists for
the domain or for a user? Where are all those kept?

All Maia-related settings and data are stored in the SQL
database.
Copying or dumping that database to a backup server would
probably solve
your problem, enabling you to reimport it to your master
server after
the repartitioning is done.

Config files like maia.conf, amavisd.conf, your config.php,
and
MTA-related configs (e.g. main.cf/master.cf for postfix,
sendmail.cf for
sendmail, etc.) contain some Maia-related settings, but only
of the
system-wide variety, and certainly not data.

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Robert LeBlanc <rjlrenaissoft.com>
Renaissoft, Inc.
Maia Mailguard <http://www.maiamail
guard.com/>

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>>> On 4/23/2007 at 2:45 PM, Robert LeBlanc
<rjlrenaissoft.com> wrote:
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Howard Yuan wrote:
> So...I'm running Maia 1.0.2 on SLES 10. I was just
wondering when users do all the training (such as telling
Maia that such and such is spam and what is not spam), where
is all that kept? Is that kept in the MySQL database that I
have Maia using? What about the current e-mails that are
saved and waiting to be decided whether they're spam or not
by users? What about all the blacklists and whitelists for
the domain or for a user? Where are all those kept?

All Maia-related settings and data are stored in the SQL
database.
Copying or dumping that database to a backup server would
probably solve
your problem, enabling you to reimport it to your master
server after
the repartitioning is done.

Config files like maia.conf, amavisd.conf, your config.php,
and
MTA-related configs (e.g. main.cf/master.cf for postfix,
sendmail.cf for
sendmail, etc.) contain some Maia-related settings, but only
of the
system-wide variety, and certainly not data.

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Robert LeBlanc <rjlrenaissoft.com>
Renaissoft, Inc.
Maia Mailguard <http://www.maiamail
guard.com/>

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So, just to make sure I'm very clear and understand what
you're saying. If I copy the MySQL database over to another
server that's running Maia with the same configuration
files. And all I did was change the DNS information to where
my users would be hitting my second server with the copied
database, they won't notice a difference. Correct?

If this is the case, I might just be able to get away with
my little evil plan. MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHA~! 

Howard

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