LDAP rcpt500 mail query server README OVERVIEW This is a mail-query server that answers X.500 white pages queries. It is designed to be run out of your mail systems alias file, or the equivalent. It expects to be fed the entire contents (including headers) of an RFC822 message via standard input. It parses the message, looking in the Subject: field or the body of the message for a command that it recognizes. The commands currently recognized are listed in the file cmd.c. They all map into two actual operations the server performs: an X.500 query or a help command. If no recognizable command is found in the Subject: or body of the message, help is assumed. An appropriate reply is sent to the sender of the message in response to the command. The help command returns the contents of the file rcpt500.help. You can modify the contents as appropriate for your local site. The query command performs a series of X.500 searches to try to find a person that matches the object of the query. If more than one X.500 entry matches, a list is returned. If exactly one is matched, detailed information is returned. Here is an example message and rcpt500 generated reply: Query message: Mail x500-query@umich.edu Subject: find tim howes . Reply from rcpt500: Message-Id: <199209161526.AA12041@umich.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 11:26:17 -0400 From: "X.500 Query Program" Subject: Re: find tim howes In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1992 11:26:12 -0400" <199209161526.AA26144@terminator.cc.umich.edu> To: "Mark Smith" One exact match was found for 'tim howes': "Timothy A Howes, Information Technology Division, Faculty and Staff" Also known as: Timothy Howes Timothy A Howes 1 Timothy A Howes Tim Howes E-mail address: tim@terminator.cc.umich.edu Fax number: +1 313 764 5140 (argus building) Business phone: +1 313 747-4454 Business address: ITD Research Systems 535 W William St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943 Title: Systems Research Programmer II, Research Systems Uniqname: tim If you want to try out rcpt500 yourself before installing it at your site, send a message to x500-query@umich.edu (we have a server running there that serves University of Michigan white pages information). CONFIGURING AND RUNNING rcpt500 AT YOUR LOCAL SITE You will probably need to make changes to the file ldapconfig.h.edit to configure rcpt500 for your local site. There are comments in the file describing each variable you might need to change. Then type make in the rcpt500 directory to make sure things are up to date. You will need to install the rcpt500 binary and help files (make install). This all assumes you have built the LDAP libraries already. If in doubt, just do a make from the top of the LDAP distribution. You will then need to set up an alias that your users can send mail to that will feed the messages to rcpt500. At our site, we run sendmail so the alias is in /usr/lib/aliases and looks like: x500-query: "|/usr/local/etc/rcpt500 -l" The available command line options for rcpt500 are: -l enable logging of requests via the syslog LOG_DAEMON facility -h ldaphost specify LDAP server host to connect to -b searchbase specify starting point of X.500 searches -a don't deference aliases during searches -s stripcount remove "stripcount" DN components from user friendly form names that are displayed -z sizelimit return at most "sizelimit" entries -u dapuser DN to bind to X.500 as when searching The search and display behavior is defined in the ldapfilter.conf and ldaptemplates.conf files. FEEDBACK / PROBLEM REPORTS / DISCUSSIONS The software is provided as is without any express or implied warranty, but you can report problems using our Issue Tracking System: http://www.OpenLDAP.com/its/ or by sending e-mail to: OpenLDAP-its@OpenLDAP.org Additional mailing lists are available. Please see: http://www.OpenLDAP.com/lists/