diff -urN ./vpopmail-5.4.13.orig/vldap.c ./vpopmail-5.4.13/vldap.c
--- ./vpopmail-5.4.13.orig/vldap.c	2004-01-07 17:06:16.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vpopmail-5.4.13/vldap.c	2005-11-28 15:33:36.876644500 +0100
@@ -1335,7 +1335,13 @@
     /* Set verror here and unset it when successful, is ok, because if one of these
     three steps fail the whole auth_connection failed */
     verrori = VA_NO_AUTH_CONNECTION;
-
+    
+    if (ldap_load_config != 0)
+    {
+        ldap_perror(ld,"Failed to read LDAP-Configuration");
+	return -99;
+    }
+    
     ld = ldap_init(VLDAP_SERVER, VLDAP_PORT);
     if (ld == NULL) {
         ldap_perror(ld,"Failed to inititialize LDAP-Connection");
@@ -1404,3 +1410,67 @@
 
 /***************************************************************************/
 
+int load_ldap_config (void)
+{
+    char configfile[256];
+    char configline[1024];
+    char key[1024];
+    char *value;    
+    FILE *fp;
+
+    sprintf(configfile, "%s/etc/%s", VPOPMAILDIR, "vpopmail.ldap");
+
+    fp = fopen(configfile, "r");
+    if (fp == NULL)
+    {
+        fprintf(stderr, "vldap: can't read settings from %s\n", configfile);
+	return(VA_NO_AUTH_CONNECTION);
+    }
+
+    while (fgets(configline, sizeof(configline), fp))
+    {
+	if (configline[0] == '\n' || configline[0] == '#' || configline[0] == ' ') continue;
+	strcpy(key,configline);
+	value = strstr(configline,"=");
+	value++;
+	value[strlen(value)-1] = '\0';
+	strtok(key, " ");
+	if (strcmp(key,"server") == 0)
+	{
+		if (VLDAP_SERVER != NULL)
+			free (VLDAP_SERVER);
+		VLDAP_SERVER = (char *) safe_strdup(value);
+	}
+	else if (strcmp(key,"port") == 0) 
+	    VLDAP_PORT = atoi(value);
+	else if (strcmp(key,"user") == 0)
+	{
+		if (VLDAP_USER != NULL)
+			free (VLDAP_USER);
+		VLDAP_USER = (char *) safe_strdup(value);
+	}
+	else if (strcmp(key,"password") == 0)
+	{
+		if (VLDAP_PASSWORD != NULL)
+			free (VLDAP_PASSWORD);
+		VLDAP_PASSWORD = (char *) safe_strdup(value);
+	}
+	else if (strcmp(key,"basedn") == 0)
+	{
+		if (VLDAP_BASEDN != NULL)
+			free (VLDAP_BASEDN);
+		VLDAP_BASEDN = (char *) safe_strdup(value);
+	}
+    }
+    
+    // check for values
+    if (VLDAP_SERVER == NULL || VLDAP_USER == NULL || VLDAP_PASSWORD == NULL || VLDAP_BASEDN == NULL)
+    {
+        fprintf(stderr, "vldap: some required settings missing in %s\n", configfile);
+	return(VA_NO_AUTH_CONNECTION);
+    }
+    
+    return 0;
+}
+
+/***************************************************************************/
diff -urN ./vpopmail-5.4.13.orig/vldap.h ./vpopmail-5.4.13/vldap.h
--- ./vpopmail-5.4.13.orig/vldap.h	2003-12-22 13:08:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ./vpopmail-5.4.13/vldap.h	2005-11-28 15:29:58.354987750 +0100
@@ -28,11 +28,13 @@
 #ifndef VPOPMAIL_LDAP_H
 #define VPOPMAIL_LDAP_H
 
-#define VLDAP_SERVER "localhost"
-#define VLDAP_PORT LDAP_PORT
-#define VLDAP_USER "cn=vpopmailuser, o=vpopmail"
-#define VLDAP_PASSWORD "vpoppasswd"
-#define VLDAP_BASEDN "o=vpopmail"
+char *VLDAP_SERVER;
+int VLDAP_PORT = 389;
+char *VLDAP_USER;
+char *VLDAP_PASSWORD;
+char *VLDAP_BASEDN;
+
+int ldap_load_config();
 
 #define MAX_BUFF 500