[Citadel Support] Re: Configuration troubles

[davew]

>Fri Oct 10 2008 18:15:19 EDT from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Subject: Re: Configuration troubles
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>the global addressbook is moreof like an addressbook of the users available
>on that machine.
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>if you want to have a shared addressbook with non local contacts, create a
>global room of type addressbook.
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>Every user has his private addressbook.  



I'll expand on this a bit.

We use this feature quite a bit with Thunderbird clients and with Webcit.

In Webcit any user can find any other user of that Citadel server using the
built in address book features very easily.

Every user gets an entry in the GAB (Global Address Book).

Foriegn addresses do not get added to the GAB though, they are added to the
users private address book.

To create an address book of foriegn adresses that users can share you need
to create a room (accessible by the users who want to share addresses) and
have those users add the foriegn addresses to that room. The room should be
created with a default view of "Address Book" as stated by Dothebart.

We also set up our Thunderbird clients to have two address books, one
personal and one for the public rooms. We then use SyncKolab to sychronise
these address books with Citadel. This way to shre an address with
Thunderbird the user simply copies the address from their personal
addressbook into the shared address book and sync's.

Also, its not a good idea to have a user called root on your Citadel system
unless you are using the Host auth mode.