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Excellent.. Never thought of or even looked in use.desc for a +ldap USE flag... That's it !! case solved :-) thanks, Peter Bryce Verdier wrote: > > emerge -vp mozilla-thunderbird > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2 -debug +gnome > +ipv6 +ldap -mozcalendar -moznoxft +truetype -xinerama -xprint 32,584 kB > > You probably just needed to add the "+ldap" to your USE variable. > > b. > > Peter van Eck wrote: > > Here is a problem that I've been facing for a while too ;-( > > Adding an LDAP server in Thunderbird, basically all Mozilla releases > from 1.x.x. and up were giving the same result ..You add the LDAP server > and it will not show up in the end.No errors or anything .. > In my case the LDAP server in question is, Netscape's / Sun Iplanet.. > > I tested on different machines with different versions of X and window > managers...all on gentoo..same result.. > > I ended up using Netscape 7.2 which did work .. > > Now I've recently installed the thunderbird-bin package from portage and > guess what .. IT WORKS !!! > > I tried the source package ..and no luck.,..You would start to think > that it is not compiled in building from source on gentoo. > I did'nt look into it in detail though , so can't really make a > statement on that.. > > Just my experience with LDAP / Mozilla... > > rgds, > > Peter > > Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: > > >>>> Hi everyone: >>>> >>>> I recently had some problems sharing my contacts with more than one >>>> mail client, so I decided to run a local LDAP server. I emerged OpenLDAP >>>> and checked it with phpLDAPadmin. I can browse server's database and >>>> add/remove/modify contacts with phpLDAPadmin, but I can't connect to it >>>> with a mail application; I tried both Evolution and Thunderbird and I >>>> got nothing. >>>> >>>> The one I care the most is Thunderbird. I tried to add a link to the >>>> server from the Address Book: FILE -> NEW -> LDAP DIRECTORY; I typed >>>> what I think is the right parameters and tried, but nothing happened. Am >>>> I doing anything wrong? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Abraham >>>> >>>> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDAZYWqgi3rzPHNR8RAhm5AJ9Nb07NKEGZRjbtRKZpXpUU2DZ6vACfRkd5 x4rbETnPWpm81aky7Y0o184= =t0RX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
