Re: Online Address book
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:43:25AM +0100, Nathan Huesken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using mutt from different computers (like my laptop and the desktop PC
> at home) and I am wondering if there is some way to always keep my address
> book synchronized between the two computers.
> The coolest solution would be, if I could install some sort of database on my
> vServer and make mutt query it everytime I need the address book (and also
> add new addresses to it).
>
> Is there some sort if solution for this kind of think?
>
> Thanks!
> Nathan
Hello, I currently use ldap for an address book with mutt,
I thought I would send you the scripts I use todo with what you will.
I have added the following lines to my .muttrc ...
## ldap search
set query_command="~/mutt-ldap-search.pl '%s'"
## adding addresses to ldap
macro index,pager a '/home/matt/bin/add2ldap'
Allowing me to search and also add addresses by pressing a
The mutt search perl script I found online somewhere, I did make a change to it
allowing me to have entries without surnames, I just put surnames as '.' in
this case.
and the add2ldap is a bash script I just chucked together, there prob a better
way of writing it but it works :)
hth,
Matt.
--
Matt Richards
#!/bin/bash
echo Adding a new address to the LDAP database ...
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo I need an email address:
read email
else
email=$1
fi
if [ -z $email ]; then
echo I really do need an email address!
exit
fi
if [ -z $2 ]; then
echo I need a First Name:
read fname
else
fname=$2
fi
if [ -z $3 ]; then
echo I need a Second Name:
read sname
if [ -z $sname ]; then
echo Using . for second name
sname=.
fi
else
sname=$3
fi
echo "dn: mail=$email,ou=Contacts,o=mattstone
cn: $fname $sname
sn: $sname
givenName: $fname
mail: $email
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: organizationalPerson" | ldapadd -h 192.168.4.6 -D
"uid=matt,ou=People,o=mattstone" -x -w "--PASSWD--"
#!/usr/bin/perl
# use strict;
use Net::LDAP;
use constant HOST => '192.168.4.6';
use constant BASE => 'ou=Contacts, o=mattstone';
use constant VERSION => 3;
use constant SCOPE => 'sub';
my $name;
my @attributes = qw( dn givenName sn mail );
{
print "Searching directory... ";
$name = shift || die;
my $filter = "(|(sn=$name*)(givenName=$name*))";
my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new( HOST, onerror => 'die' )
|| die "Cannot connect: $@";
#$ldap->bind(version => VERSION) or die "Cannot bind: $@";
$ldap->bind( "uid=matt,ou=People,o=mattstone", password => "--PASSWD--" )
or die "Cannot bind: $@";
my $result = $ldap->search( base => BASE,
scope => SCOPE,
attrs => [EMAIL PROTECTED],
filter => $filter
);
my @entries = $result->entries;
$ldap->unbind();
print scalar @entries, " entries found.\n";
foreach my $entry ( @entries ) {
my @emailAddr = $entry->get_value('mail');
foreach my $addr (@emailAddr) {
print $addr , "\t";
if ($entry->get_value('sn') eq '.') {
print $entry->get_value('givenName'), "\n";
} else {
print $entry->get_value('givenName'), " ";
print $entry->get_value('sn'), "\n";
}
}
}
}
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Re: Online Address book
On 02/12/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. ldap is running on my vServer. But I am not sure how > to setup lbdb to use ldap and mutt to use lbdb. > Any advise where to look? > > Thanks! > Nathan > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:04:00PM -0500, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote: > > On Tue 12.Feb'08 at 1:43:25 +0100, Nathan Huesken wrote: > >> I am using mutt from different computers (like my laptop and the desktop > >> PC at home) and I am wondering if there is some way to always keep my > >> address book synchronized between the two computers. > >> The coolest solution would be, if I could install some sort of database on > >> my vServer and make mutt query it everytime I need the address book (and > >> also add new addresses to it). > >> > >> Is there some sort if solution for this kind of think? > > > > Using LDAP and lbdb kinda solves this problem. Another solution is to setup svn on a server somewhere and then use that to keep your addresses, muttrc files, and other home data you want to be shared everywhere. I also keep my icewm files, alias setups and so on there. Make an alias that does svn ci of your files before starting mutt. -- |respectfull, Joseph | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Online Address book
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, February 12 at 03:03 PM, quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Hi, > >Thanks for your reply. ldap is running on my vServer. But I am not sure how to >setup lbdb to use ldap and mutt to use lbdb. >Any advise where to look? http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/ and http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/mutt_ldap_query.html ~Kyle - -- This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -- Dalai Lama -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFHscYeBkIOoMqOI14RAvyGAKCyvSqirqlnrX2HmTBkqRiB29jIjQCg1T6j V7dVRNi8vxtEXMoWFC8kQEQ= =KCqx -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Online Address book
Hi, Thanks for your reply. ldap is running on my vServer. But I am not sure how to setup lbdb to use ldap and mutt to use lbdb. Any advise where to look? Thanks! Nathan On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:04:00PM -0500, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote: > On Tue 12.Feb'08 at 1:43:25 +0100, Nathan Huesken wrote: >> I am using mutt from different computers (like my laptop and the desktop >> PC at home) and I am wondering if there is some way to always keep my >> address book synchronized between the two computers. >> The coolest solution would be, if I could install some sort of database on >> my vServer and make mutt query it everytime I need the address book (and >> also add new addresses to it). >> >> Is there some sort if solution for this kind of think? > > Using LDAP and lbdb kinda solves this problem.
Re: Online Address book
On Tue 12.Feb'08 at 1:43:25 +0100, Nathan Huesken wrote: I am using mutt from different computers (like my laptop and the desktop PC at home) and I am wondering if there is some way to always keep my address book synchronized between the two computers. The coolest solution would be, if I could install some sort of database on my vServer and make mutt query it everytime I need the address book (and also add new addresses to it). Is there some sort if solution for this kind of think? Using LDAP and lbdb kinda solves this problem.
