Roland,
The only address book that a user would always have access to is that in the
Web Messaging and the LDAP database.
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Corbet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] IMAP Address Books, Outlook, Macs and IMAIL
> Thanks for the reply. I am aware of the functions of LDAP as we have it
> Implemented on our server. The solution that I was trying to provide was
> to replicate a scenario that I found in a local university.
>
> The University had users on both Macs and PCs. The users used clients
> called Simeon, and Execmail. I'm told that these users were able to store
> personal address books (Not a general LDAP directory) and retrieve them
> from any Mac or PC terminal. I was wondering if anything like this was
> possible with Imail.
>
> Regards
>
> Roland
>
> At 06:04 31/07/2000, Daniel Donnelly wrote:
> >Roland,
> >
> >I think you are looking for something on the server, that users can
> >query, to get the local addresses as this is the only way i can
> >think of that would not require the user to carry a floppy with his
> >addresses. For that, IMail provides the LDAP service which stores
> >all the users info that you and IMail created when the user was
> >created, or you (or your users) enter afterwards. The newer versions
> >of many IMAP4 clients, include the client end for getting addresses,
> >when a user starts typing (or searches). I've used NS to do this,
> >and it was just finding the settings (the hard part!) and trying out
> >a few things, to get it working. I seem to remember trying OE, too
> >and that worked. Don't know about Eudora.
> >
> >LDAP can provide as much info as you want, but also to others
> >outside your system. You might want to limit access to the port from
> >outside your router, then I and the spammers, cannot get it.
> >
> >Daniel Donnelly
> >Ipswitch Technical Support
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> >
> >
> >In reply to 27 Jul message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> >
> > >We are running Imail 6.03 on our NT Server (SP6a). I was
> > >wondering if it is possible to have IMAP address books (i.e.
> > >address books that follow the user to any terminal that they
> > >use).
> >
> > >The clients that I am looking to use are Outlook, Eudora, or
> > >Netscape (Version 4 and above).
> >
> > >The problem is further complicated that the clients are a
> > >mixture of Macs and PCs. Mainly Macs.
> >
> > >I've heard that this address book feature is available, for
> > >example in Execmail or Simeon and so was wondering if it was
> > >supported in some of the more popular clients.
> >
> > >Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > >Many thanks for your time and help.
> >
> > >Roland
>
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