email and active directory

[Bob Ramsey <robert-ramsey@uiowa.edu>]

Hi,

Sending this again since the first attempt got flagged for suspicious 
headers.  Moderators, if this gets through I'll cancel the other 
message.  I'm curious what was suspicious though.


I've looked through the archives and haven't found all of these things in 
one place.  There have been bits and pieces scattered around, but nothing 
concrete.

Background.  Our University is switching from a Novell tree to an Active 
Directory forest.  We used to use Netware and Nims for our network os and 
e-mail.  They were tightly integrated; the creation of a network login 
automatically meant the user had e-mail.

We will be pretty much forced to set up our own Active Directory server as 
the primary server in our domain now.  We would like to avoid using Exchange.

What we'd like is to have a system where we create an account on our AD 
server and the user automatically gets an e-mail account; there are a 
couple of different ways this could happen, and I don't have a preference 
except that it should be secure and easy ;) .  We'd like SMTP, POP3, and 
IMAP support.  If it has an integrated web based client, that would be 
great, but I think something like Horde or SquirrelMail would work.

Most of what I've seen has no problems with everything except the automagic 
Active Directory integration.  I've read references to using LDAP and 
kerberos for this, but I don't know where to start looking.

I'd appreciate any suggestions on where to get started.

Thanks,

Bob




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