What do you have your search base set to in Outlook? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Wilkins Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] LDAP extreme basic question
We are a small shop too (50+ users) and have tried using OpenLDAP for a central address book. It works, but extremely simple and not very friendly to Outlook. You can setup LDAP directory services in any version of Outlook quite easily. But it doesn't lookup information cleanly, and won't provide a complete list of users at any given time. Looking up people in the "to" line of outlook is the only thing that appears to work well. (type in a name in the to line, and the email address is replaced within a moment) Trying to share phone numbers and office addresses really sucks with this implementation. OpenLDAP doesn't seem to respond to Outlooks queries properly at all. And Searches fail on the most basic parameters. For instance, Imail defaults the "organization" field to "people", I left that there for no basic reason, yet Outlook won't return anyone if I search on "people". Plus the office address field always returns trash characters along with the address. I can't figure out why the list of people doesn't just show up when you open the address book. To get a person you always have to do a manual search. Don't get me started about the problems in the OpenLDAP with KillerWebMail integration. Gads! At this point, I'd say that IPSwitches move to OpenLDAP was bad, rather than good. I'm a new Imail admin, so I don't know about the old LDAP they used to use. But, the change might be a good one if they do the Collaboration tool well. We are waiting patiently (not really) for their new Collaboration Tool to be released. Hopefully it will provide a much better information share resource than the OpenLDAP tool does. Scott Wilkins IT Manager Tedford Insurance Phone: 918.299.2345 Direct: 918.296.2913 Fax: 918.296.3346 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] LDAP extreme basic question > We are a small company with about 75 email users -- we are not an > ISP.) In that case, I would strongly recommend installing IMail on a domain controller, either as its own segregated domain or as part of the corporate AD domain if it exists. You can then just use AD's built-in LDAP support, which is proven compatible with all recent versions of Outlook. Ipswitch has quite intelligently chosen to bundle open-source LDAP in the latest version of LDAP, but to many accounts the integration is not quite complete--and, in any case, AD and Outlook play as happily as possible. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange Addresses into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
