Hi,
I recently decided, that we need a central adressbook here in our company (for all employees and if possible for Thunderbird and OpenOffice together).
Are the following two statements true:
1. it's only possible to share adresses with Thunderbirds through LDAP
2. the LDAP implementation of thunderbird can only read adresses, but is not able to *change/create* adresses
What do others do in such a situation?
Greetings from germany Christoph Vogelbusch
Hello,
I am only a newbie at this myself, but I believe the two statements you made are true (you have probably already learned this judging by the date of your message).
I am very interested in doing the same thing, setting up a corporate address book using LDAP for use by Thunderbird clients throughout the company.
But as a relative newbie to LDAP, I am finding this a bit of a challenge (to say the least!). Setting up Thunderbird seems easy enough, the dialog box for specifying the LDAP server is pretty basic. The problem seems to be in configuring the LDAP server correctly, with the right schema, and populating it with the right data.
I actually achieved this a while back, as a proof of concept, using a version of OpenLDAP for Win95 (believe it or not) and some schema files cribbed from a web site where someone gave some explanations about the process. But that was for a much earlier Mozilla build (1.4 maybe) and I gather the schema has changed a lot since then. Plus I have returned to this problem now with a OpenLDAP on a Redhat Enterprise server so things are all together different.
Are there any tutorials on this or good background documents available? Compared to picking up programming languages and database systems, LDAP seems to be very hard to understand (is it just me?). I can usually make heads or tails of most things I come across, but I must be lacking a lot of core conceptual understanding because LDAP seems like a black box.
I was very excited to read the discussion of LDAP addressbooks found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/directory/addrbook-refactoring-proposal.html
Is that out of date info now, or might we expect not-too-distant-future builds of Thunderbird to incorporate these planned improvements?
Anyway, any pointers would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks very much,
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