Author Archives: Dave Warren (everything-mdaemon.com)

LDaemon Optimizer v1.0.0

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LDaemon Optimizer v1.0.0
5/15/2003 David L. Koontz

Introduction:
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MDaemon’s LDaemon is a porting of the OpenLDAP project. However, there are several inherent problems with LDaemon’s Implementation that effect speed, performance, stability and maintenance of the LDAP database for Mid to large size installations.

1) Using LDaemon as the Server Account Storage is unstable.
2) MDaemon Schema Extension do not scale well with many users
3) LDaemon has no method of removing LDAP Entries

LDaemon Optimizer is the answer! If you want to offer your users LDAP address book lookups from their email clients like Outlook, Netscape, ThunderBird, etc. this tool will help you to provide a
FAST LDAP lookup service, and will keep your LDAP database fresh by removing old MDaemon accounts and adding new ones.

Note: This script currently only works with the text file database setup (Userlist.dat). If there is significant need, a future version may include ODBC setups, or perhaps alias entries.

MDaemon-AD User Management for Dynamic NT Auth

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Meet MDaemon-AD User Management for Dynamic NT Auth

This is version 1.1 which includes a couple bug fixes.

This script creates users and OUs in Windows AD for the purpose of using Dynamic NT option in MDaemon. Run the script with no parameters to get the syntax and functions. MDaemon must be running as an account with object creation privileges.

This script is to be used in conjunction with WebAdmin. WebAdmin now allows script execution after account events. To enable this, read the release notes and edit your webadmin.ini file. The entry is located in the [Special] section and might look something like:

ModifyUserProcess=”Cscript.exe D:\MDaemon\scripts\user_management.vbs”

There are constants and comments in this script that must be edited prior to use. Please read through it!

Bulk DNS record creation

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This script is useful for anyone who has to bulk add SPF records to many zone files hosted on Microsoft’s DNS server.

The script checks for a specific MX record so only domains which have mail hosted with the specified MDaemon server will be modified. This script is written in VBS, and can easily be modified to add other records such as Domainkeys or DKIM.