Synchronization between the Linux email system and AD

Article Title: Linux email system implementation and AD synchronization [text]. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

At the time of the financial crisis, even physical enterprises like ours were also affected. The IT budget will be greatly reduced in the next year, as the boss said. Colleagues discussed how to convert the originally purchased Windows server to a Linux server, saving costs. An Exchange server that was originally purchased was also forced to abort. I was responsible for finding an alternative product under the Linux platform. Because the company has implemented full AD domain management, the first requirement of the system in Linux is that user verification must be completed on the AD. At that time, we also discussed another solution, namely, setting up another LDAP server and using LDAP to verify all applications on the AD and Linux platforms, however, we suddenly found that many of our previous applications did not support LDAP,

Creating an LDAP server for an email system doesn't seem to be a problem, so the goal is very clear now.

In the mail system with one-way AD synchronization, all user management is completed in windows.

PostFix, Qmail, and many systems developed based on the second were tested. Some vendors claim to be able to support it, but the last test of this function was rejected, when I wanted to give up, I suddenly got a friend's recommendation. A foreign product called IceWarp Merak Mail Server is good and can implement this function. I checked on the Internet. Since there is a branch in China, I contacted them and got a RedHat AS5 version test from the official website. I didn't expect it to be so simple. I passed the test in just a few steps, however, there was some slight negligence in the middle, which was solved only after communication with their engineers. In order not to make the same mistake next time, it would be convenient for man who had the same requirements as me, let's record the test experience and simple steps.

1. download and install the installation package.

(Linux_platform/index. php "> http://www.icewarp.cn/downloads/linux_platform/index.php)

The installation is simple. Run./install. sh and run "Y" and "Y" to complete the installation. Then, create a domain and Administrator according to the prompt of the automatically running wizard.

In this example, we create a cshappy.com domain and create an administrator for this admin@cshappy.com.

1,

Check the configuration of the Windows 2003 AD server

To synchronize accounts in the Linux email server and Windows AD domain, you do not need to make any settings for the Windows server, however, make sure to configure an email address for the account to be synchronized in the Active Directory Manager of the Windows server. I forgot to set the email address when I tested it myself, you can call the Technical Department of the product.

In this example, the administrator and Lion accounts have email addresses.

[1] [2] Next page