PDL's missing from LDAP

[kluss0]

I just noticed that some PDLs are missing from the LDAP listing, and therefore missing from the address book. It seems as if they went missing when I set up ACIs. I set an ACI so that Default=none so that only local users can send mail to certain lists. An unfortunate side effect is that they no longer appear in the addressbook, and they don't show up in an ldap search. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks,
Kenny

[Valerion]

You need read permission on a PDL to know it exists, I believe. Can users with permissions in the PDL see it in Outlook? Does it show up with a omshowpdl -l all?

I think you will have to find out which user accesses the PDL to build the LDAP tree and make sure it has permissions to access this. I would contact Scalix support regarding this, they may be able to show you how to get this to work fine.

[kluss0]

Hi Valerion,

It shows up with omshowpdl -l all, but I am doing it as root, so I would assume that it should always show up. If I add read permission to Default, will that allow people from outside of my company to send mail to it? The reason that I had removed permissions for Default is that we were getting spam to PDLs, and it was really annoying :-)

Thanks,
Kenny

[Valerion]

To be honest I can't recall offhand. I suggest you try to test it first, create a new PDL, set the default to none and only your own user read access and see if you can send to it.

To solve the spam problem I would recommend something like Spamassassin, or make the settings stricter if needed. Since you don't want access to the outside word anyway, you can change the email address to something like INVALID-PDL-11111@domain.com. Or you can blacklist the address in the Scalix SMTP relay config.

[kluss0]

I actually have a Barracuda box as my external MX. Unfortunately, spammers have gotten a lot smarter, and we were still getting spam. Also, it's not bad practice to limit internal PDLs to local users.

I'm going to play around with it and see what I can come up with.

Thanks,
Kenny