Re: Problem with private/proxymap (more info)

From: Victor Duchovni (no email)
Date: Sat Sep 03 2005 - 15:01:33 EDT

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    On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:37:22PM +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

    > > Use of nss_ldap, nss_nis, ... on mail servers performing local(8)
    > > delivery is inadvisable, avoid at all costs (dump the user list) to
    > > /etc/passwd or "db" periodically, ... If nss_ldap, ... must be used,
    > > provide enough replica servers and sufficiently robust networking to
    > > make lookup failure extremely improbable.
    >
    > Yes. After more than a year running Postfix 2.1.5 on a given RHAS3 site
    > and having 1150+ users really hammering OpenLDAP 2.2.17 both with
    > ns_ldap and LDAP searches, no problems whatsoever, present uptime 90+
    > days (downtimes due to RHAS3 kernel updates).
    >
    > All Postfix local(8) delivery is local. And no use whatsoever is made of
    > nss for LDAP.
    >

    Things would likely be different had you enabled nss_ldap, in which case
    occasional false "unknown" bounces from local(8) or rejects from
    smtpd(8) using unix:passwd.byname in local_recipient_maps are to be
    expected.

    -- 
    	Viktor.
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