On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:27 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
On an aside, why do all these clients only support read-access to
LDAP? Seems like it would really great to be able to use LDAP in
place of a local address book in all of your clients, but that's
not a possibility if you can't write to it.
I don't get why it is only considered to be useful for reading
from. Something in the design of it?
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol was designed to be a
"lightweight directory access protocol". :) That is, it is
highly optimized for many reads, few writes. Contact information
should not change frequently. If you want to do a lot of writes,
you use a database.
Right, well it would be great if ANY mail client supported a
standard protocol for networking address books. It just seems
absurd that this hasn't been covered yet.
I think that LDAP *is* a standard for "networking address books".
But that doesn't mean that your webmail interface is the right place
to administer it. ;-)
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Jason Dixon
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