Generic LDAP Integration

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Synchronizing User Accounts with a Generic LDAP Directory Service

In addition to adding users manually (which is described in chapter User Management), MailStore can synchronize its internal user database with your company's generic LDAP directory service (e.g. OpenLDAP, Novell eDirectory).

During synchronization user information such as user names and email addresses are read from the LDAP directory and recorded in MailStore Server's user database. MailStore Server makes no changes to the LDAP directory itself. The scope of the synchronization can be limited through filters.

Accessing Directory Service Integration

• Log on to MailStore Client as a MailStore Server administrator.
• Click on Administrative Tools > Users and Privileges and then on Directory Services.
• In the Integration section, change the directory service type to LDAP Generic.

Connection to the LDAP Directory Service

For synchronization MailStore Server requires information on how to connect to the LDAP directory service.

• Server Name
  DNS name or IP address of the LDAP server.
• Encryption
  Configure whether the connection to the LDAP server is to be unencrypted or LDAP-TLS/LDAP-SSL encrypted.
• Ignore SSL Security Warnings (only when using IMAP-TLS or IMAP-SSL)
  Activate this option if a self-signed or non-public certificate is used on the LDAP server.
• Administrative DN
  Distinguished Name (DN) of a user with administrative privileges on the LDAP server.
• Password
  Password of that user.

LDAP Scope

After configuring the connection settings as described above, you can specify filter criteria for the LDAP directory service synchronization in this section.

• Base-DN
  LDAP base DN, e.g. dc=mycompany,dc=local
• Filter (optional)
  RFC 4515 compliant LDAP filter, e.g. (&(objectclass=posixAccount)(mail=*))

LDAP-Attributes

Specify how LDAP user attributes should be mapped to the MailStore user attributes:

• User Name
  LDAP attribute for the user name, e.g. cn or uid.
• Full Name (optional)
  LDAP attribute for the display name, e.g. displayName.
• Email addresses (optional)
  LDAP attribute for the SMTP address, e.g. mail. Multiple addresses can be specified, separated by comma.