On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:
> The LDAP server could either be a frontend to a MySQL database, or the
> LDAP directory could be the authorative source for aliases/etc.. and
> you could have nightly jobs to sync between the 2.
>
and openldap 2.0 even has a ldap-sql backend intended specifically to
allow ldap to expose a part of an existing DB.
(although a full LDAP export of an SQL db would be a very bad idea.)
Be enough to do what you want for any LDAP aware MTA, plus you're
insulated from MTA hacking.
--paulj
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