Didn't see a response to this so I thought I would mention a couple of things.
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:17, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > For the last few days I've been suffering through my first corporate > addressbook setup. There are several specific problems that I can't > seem to find any solutions to. Please offer advice if you can! ;-) > > ---------- background info --------------- ... > We have heterogeneous mail clients -- some Oultook, some Outlook > Express, some Netscape 7, some Mozilla. > > We have some computers that stay in the office, but laptops travel. So > the addressbook has to be made available offline, too. > > ------------------------------------------- ... > -2- I need some way to download the addressbook to the local computer > for offline usage, because the laptops travel. I can't find any way to > do this in Outlook, and although Netscape has a "download" button, it > doesn't seem to do anything. ... FWIW, you may want to consider making the directory, or a portion of it, available as a vCard file. I believe all the mail clients you mentioned can import vCards. In the *nix world it's fairly easy to write a script the queries the LDAP system and creates a vCard file. A simple cron entry will update and distribute this file on a regular basis. In addition there are open source tools out there to put a web front end on your LDAP db. I haven't tried these, but I have heard mention of: http://rolodap.sourceforge.net/ and http://web500gw.sourceforge.net/ - Paul Beltrani _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
