Re: contacts via LDAP
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:05:44PM +0200, pch0317 wrote: Hi In which e-mail client it is possible that import contacts via LDAP. For example from Active Directory or eDirectory or from OpenLDAP. This is where apt-cache comes in handy: apt-cache search ldap mail | wc -l 36 r...@box:~# apt-cache show lbdb | grep ldap Suggests: mutt | mutt-ja, procmail, finger, abook, libpalm-perl, libnet-ldap-perl - m_ldap (query some LDAP server) man lbdbq […] m_ldap This module queries an LDAP server using the Net::LDAP(3pm) Perl modules from CPAN. It can be configured using an external resource file /etc/lbdb_ldap.rc You can explicity define a LDAP query in this file or you can use one or more of the predefined queries from the %ldap_server_db in this file. For this you have to define a space separated list of nicknames from entries in the variable LDAP_NICKS. And a bug! --- Finally, to use lbdbq from mutt, add the following line to your $HOME/.muttrc: set query_command=lbdbq ’%s’ --- The command should be: set query_command=lbdbq %s which is correct in /usr/share/doc/lbdb/README.gz -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: contacts via LDAP
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:48 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:16:31 am Paul Johnson wrote: What would the best way to go about setting up a server to manage such contacts? Zimbra ? www.zimbra.com Overkill...granted I'd like the other features, but I'm trying to follow the do one thing at a time and do one thing well philosophy of software design that a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all package doesn't necessarily allow. The classical answer is OpenLDAP, which I do use, but I'm not really happy with. I run it only as an address book, and as you say, it's massive overkill. But it does do LDAP well, and though it's a bit of a resource hog (in Linux server terms, not desktop or Windows) it's well-behaved and completely unobtrusive once configured. What I'd really like is a small program which accepted just the simple LDAP requests that email clients use, and turned the queries into SQL lookups. In other words, a tiny, tiny subset of OpenLDAP. I look for this every now and then, but I haven't found one, and I don't have the time to learn enough system programming to make one. The main drawback to LDAP is that the address book has to be regarded as read-only: email clients can't edit or create new entries (yet). Even with Outlook and Exchange in a heavily integrated Windows Server network this is the case. I made a couple of brutally primitive perl web pages to do this, and if I needed to do it more than two or three times a year, I might make something a bit more sophisticated. On the odd occasion I've needed to do quite a bit of hacking I've used a full LDAP editor. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: contacts via LDAP
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:40 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: From: pch0317 [mailto:pch0...@gmail.com] Hi In which e-mail client it is possible that import contacts via LDAP. For example from Active Directory or eDirectory or from OpenLDAP. Icedove (Thunderbird) has good LDAP support. It can even auto-complete email addresses as you type them. You don't need to import the contacts into your local address book, either. What would the best way to go about setting up a server to manage such contacts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: contacts via LDAP
On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:16:31 am Paul Johnson wrote: What would the best way to go about setting up a server to manage such contacts? Zimbra ? www.zimbra.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: contacts via LDAP
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:48 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: On Thursday 13 August 2009 11:16:31 am Paul Johnson wrote: What would the best way to go about setting up a server to manage such contacts? Zimbra ? www.zimbra.com Overkill...granted I'd like the other features, but I'm trying to follow the do one thing at a time and do one thing well philosophy of software design that a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all package doesn't necessarily allow. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
contacts via LDAP
Hi In which e-mail client it is possible that import contacts via LDAP. For example from Active Directory or eDirectory or from OpenLDAP. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: contacts via LDAP
From: pch0317 [mailto:pch0...@gmail.com] Hi In which e-mail client it is possible that import contacts via LDAP. For example from Active Directory or eDirectory or from OpenLDAP. Icedove (Thunderbird) has good LDAP support. It can even auto-complete email addresses as you type them. You don't need to import the contacts into your local address book, either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
