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List:       ldap
Subject:    [ldap] Re: How to allow email clients to add and edit  entries
From:       Buchan Milne <bgmilne () obsidian ! co ! za>
Date:       2005-08-30 9:43:14
Message-ID: 43142A32.6020506 () obsidian ! co ! za
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Peter Schober wrote:
> hi,
> 
> * Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer@videotron.ca> [2005-08-22 00:51]:
> 
>>Ivan Carey wrote:
>>
>>>What method do I use to allow Outlook 2002 and Thunderbird and Mozilla to
>>>edit and add entries on the LDAP server.
>>
>>AFAIK, Thunderbird/Mozilla can't add contact in an LDAP directory.  I
>>don't think Outlook can either.
>>
>>Actually, I know of no email client or PIM that can edit or add entries
>>directly into LDAP.  If someone know of one, let us know too !
> 
> 
> thanks to Daniel Marczisovszky Squirrelmail now has a plugin that works as a
> generic database backend (starting from a backend template by Tomas Kuliavas),
> so no changes are needed to SM's UI (quite unlike most other plugins).
> http://daniel.marczisovszky.hu/projects/squirrelmail/ldap_abook_backend/

I think "email client or PIM" meant a local GUI application to most, not
a webapp.

> you can configure just about anything wrt objectclasses, attributes, where
> it end's up in you DIT, etc. to my knowledge that makes it the first completely
> configureable MUA with full LDAP write support (even though it's webbased).

I think Horde probably had LDAP write support before? And, you also
seemed to have missed the replies covering Evolution and Kmail/Kaddressbook.

> Daniel also created a generic config backend for SM that stores settings in
> LDAP, based on the work of Alexandros Vellis of UoA, Greece:
> http://email.uoa.gr/projects/squirrelmail/

Nice.

While we're on the topic, there's an patch to KDE supporting all
configuration for KDE applications in LDAP:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101716

It still needs some work before it can be integrated into KDE CVS, and
there are some features I think should be added ... but it does work as-is.

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                              Systems Architect
Obsidian Systems                  http://www.obsidian.co.za
B.Eng          RHCE (803004789010797),LPIC-1 (LPI000074592)
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