Solaris ISP Server and Sun Internet Mail Server Integration Overview

You can install Sun Internet Mail Server in a Solaris ISP Server environment and share subscriber data, but each must use a different directory service. To achieve seamless integration, you can configure the SIMS directory server to be a slave of the Solaris ISP Server directory and modify the directories so they use compatible schemas.

Solaris ISP Server includes tools to configure the directory servers in both environments. The tools are part of the Solaris ISP Server Directory Service component. They will configure a SIMS directory to be a slave of the Solaris ISP Server directory, and modify the Solaris ISP Server schema to use the attributes and object classes required by SIMS.

Since the directory requirements are different, you must run the Sun Internet Mail Server Directory Service and the Solaris ISP Server Directory Service on separate network hosts.

Once the integration steps are complete, the Solaris ISP Server directory is configured to push all changes to relevant data in its directory to the Sun Internet Mail Server directory. The user data can now be shared freely, and the same subscriber entries can be used with applications like Sun WebServer and Sun Internet Mail Server.

The data must be maintained in the master directory. Changes made in the slave (Sun Internet Mail Server) by the directory service root DN will not get propagated to the master.