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Hi,
I need to replicate my scalix directory to an OpenLDAP 2.0.x server. We doing our mail routing from our current postfix/OpneLDAP email server. I'd like to replicate the o=scalix to a new database on the postfix server so LDAP lookups are done locally for users on our scalix server.
Is there a guide on doing this? Can anyone help with the scalix configuration of slurpd?
thanks,
chrisj

unfortunately, using slurpd won't work, as Scalix-LDAP is not a real and full LDAP implementation, but just a LDAP frontend to the legacy Scalix directory.

certainly, some kind of automated replication could be setup, but given what your requirement is, i would keep things simple.

Understand that you are concerned about lookup performance - correct?

I would, once every hour, just run a script that downloads the few LDAP attributes you need (probably just dn and mail, correct?) into a LDIF file and then builds the local LDAP database based on this.

Postfix experts, though, tell me that LDAP lookups are not the preferred way anyway when it comes to performance, so maybe while doing that your script would actually convert this into a local lookup file - which will be much faster and remove the overhead of the LDAP protocol.

Hope this helps,
Florian.