Best email solution for linux in Active Directory environment

[smhickel]

All,

If a school wanted to use their student list from AD but wanted a separate email server built on linux for just an intranet (no internet based in/out mail), what would be a good place to start?

thanks,

Steve

ps. They have student list in AD but would need to be exported to new email server. Desktops would use outlook for client. I am thinking currentl of Cyrus imap and somehow export student list into either /etc/passwd or ldap solution on one linux box.

 

[lgarner]

You can get the names but not the passwords from AD into /etc/passwd. I'd propose that duplicating AD on Linux is more work than is needed and has the same problem. Use AD directly for authentication via pam_ldap.