Aliases
We are in the process of moving from Sendmail to iMS. As a Sendmail person it's been a learning experience. So if the following is obvious please excuse my ignorance. I am trying to understand how iMS deals with mail aliases. I understand the aliases file in imta/config as it is similar in Sendmail. However, in the admin guide is appears that this is an alternative to putting the aliases in LDAP somehow. My questions are... how does one go about putting an alias in the LDAP? And, what are the advantages of each method?
thanks for you input,
-patrick
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Honestly you might want to take a class about iMS.
Putting things in LDAP has many advantages. In large deployments this has the benefit that you do not have to enter this information more than once. All of the iMS machines will pull the necessary information from LDAP.
I've used Sendmail, well still do but nearly to the extent that I have in the past. I understand where you're coming from. I used PMDF before I had ever really used Sendmail so learning Sendmail was a difficult task.
If you want to use LDAP, which I recommend for most things, then you can use command line tools like ldapsearch and ldapmodify.
There is another place you can put aliases as well, msg-<instance>/imta/db/aliasesdb.db -- dirsync will create this for you by default, the source of which is LDAP.If you feel as though you must do this yourself then you could use 'imsimta crdb' and text files to create those files yourself. I do not suggest you go this way, rather use LDAP and you'll be happier in the long run.
In 5.2 there is a new mode, direct LDAP lookup. I suggest using this method if you can. Dirsync is a pia and while it works it will be going away in the future and thus why start to use it. ;-)
You might find the PMDF v5.2 manuals helpful for basics. Not everything is identical but certainly the basics are mostly the same. Archives of info-pmdf mailing list would also help.
-Chad-
