I believe that there are two ways to get into the address book. Exchange
5.5 has a 'GAL', the Global Address List with a proprietary
protocol, but with an optional LDAP access mode. In Exchange 2000, I
believe that the LDAP access is default via Active Directory.

As eluded to by a post a few (months?) ago, Exchange exports all of its
data via IMAP. If this is the case, we should see if there's a particular
message format that contains addresses that we can emulate.

If the only route in LDAP, then it's a more complex matter of getting
together a schema that does what Outlook expects. The Samba HEAD branch
(version 3 alpha) has a lot of Active Directory schemas for OpenLDAP. I do
doubt that they have the Exchange schema changes, though... I think
they're published in an MSDN document.

Aaron


On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Jesse Norell wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
>   Anyone familiar with Exchange server who could explain what is in
> their address book, and any details that would seem pertinent to dbmail
> supporting it?  I'm really working on weDBmail here, but if dbmail plans
> to be Exchange compatible, and Exchange supports address books (which
> I would assume it does, but maybe not), then I might as well try to
> design the address book forward-thinking to dbmail adopting the same
> tables.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>
>
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