On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Paul Russell wrote:
>
>I would like to see LDAP support added to LISTSERV, but it should not be
>done in a manner that limits its use to authentication. It should be done
>in a manner that makes it possible to eliminate the need for multiple owner,
>editor, and moderator keywords, and multiple subscriptions, for sites where
>individual users have multiple email aliases.
>
>An LDAP-enabled mail server can be configured to perform LDAP lookups only
>for addresses in specified domains. This enables it to validate local sender
>addresses and determine the routing for local recipient addresses, but
>prevents it from performing lookups on external addresses which are not
>likely to be in the local LDAP directory. LDAP support in LISTSERV would
>need to include a similar configuration option, since few sites are likely
>to have LDAP directory entries for external owners, editors, moderators, and
>subscribers.

Paul, I agree. We could definitely use such functionality here. I get
asked about that type of issue frequently by my management. Primarily for
us, we want to be able to put the name of the list in the ldap entries for
a set of users (sort of subscription via ldap) and then send out targetted
emails. For example, the head of the math department (or a designee) might
want to send an email to everyone in the math department. It would be nice
if Listserv could play a role in that functionality.