MS AD authenitication and attachment restrictions

Muhammad Sharfuddin ibnerazi at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 30 13:57:01 CEST 2010


--- On Tue, 3/30/10, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> wrote:
> 
> > 1 - is it possible to authenticate users from MS Active Directory ?
> 
> this might work. We had an AD connector for the kolabd daemon but I
> don't know if that one still works fine. I added Thomas on cc he might
> know more about it than I do.
> 
Thanks, I am waiting for Thomas reply
But do you know from where I can download the connector from ? to test it 

> 
> > 2 - is it possible to restrict a group of users from sending
> > attachments
> > 3 - is it possible to restrict a group of users from sending
> > attachment larger then 55 KB
> 
> This is nothing that you would get with a simple click in the admin
> frontend but it is certainly configurable.
> 
> The Kolab Server uses postfix as MTA and amavisd-new for
> virus/attachment checking. Both might be used to impose limits on the
> message size. How the exact configuration might look like depends on
> your exact requirements though. "restrict users from sending"
> attachments is still a little bit vague. What exactly is an "attachment"
> in a multi-mime-part message? Does the HTML part a client might send
> already count as attachment or not? In general my feeling is that it
> makes sense to impose restrictions on the complete message size in that
> case. And that is something you could add to the postfix configuration.
> And I believe it should also be no problem to restrict that to a
> specific group of users.
> 

OK thanks for the explanation.. appreciated 

Cheers,
> 
> Gunnar




      
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