[lug] Using an LDAP enabled MUA for creating email pop accounts

[Andrew Diederich]

We're trying to setup Linux as a pop3 server.  Easy enough.  The difficult
part is development wants to create the pop user accounts with LDAP.  We're
initially trying qmail for this; we've also thought about sendmail or
postfix, but sendmail can be odd and postfix hasn't hit 1.0 yet.   Oh, we're
using openldap on the linux machine. 

Here's our plan so far: compile qmail with the ldap bits in.  We'd like to
not have to create user accounts, but I think the ldap stuff requires a user
account.  This is sad because we need to support the creation of about
100,000 accounts right off the bat.  I know that with some of the pop3 bits
for qmail you don't necessarily need to create user accounts, but I'm not so
sure about the ldap hook in.

So -- has anyone here every tried something like this before?  Is our
thinking and choice of software correct?  Any help is much appreciated.

-Andrew