-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sadly my experience has been with Active Directory storing the contacts and lists. If you need to accept mail via distribution lists I can probably help (ie exim/cyrus integration with Active Directory).
Probably the best thing to do is to download the Kolab VMWare image from vmware.com Also grab the vmware player. There is no substitute for actually trying this out. Kolab uses LDAP btw. You may also wish to check out Luma, a KDE LDAP GUI client. By maintaining the back end, I assume that you mean adding/changing/deleting contacts and lists? If you are having problems then it is likely a permissions issue. Anonymous binds are read only by default. If you have shared IMAP folders you may be able to get away with storing your contacts in a shared IMAP folder. I know this is possible, but I have never tried it (this is supported in kmail btw). My preference would be an LDAP solution which is somewhat MUA agnostic (I dislike using Kmail/Kontact more than Outlook 2003). Hth, Curtis Rempel wrote: > Here's the scenario: > > A number of Kontact users on a local network have their own address books and > corresponding distribution lists. There is the need to have a global address > book and dist lists to avoid the obvious pitfalls of maintaining multiple > copies. > > While Kontact can hook into an LDAP back end, maintaining that back end using > some sort of external interface (since it cannot be done within Kontact) is > problematic - either the standard command line tools or something like > phpldapadmin would do, but in both cases, administration by end users is > required and neither tool is appropriate for the skillset at hand. > > Further, global distribution lists are required from the global address book > which is not something I think is possible just using the simple LDAP > connection alone with Kontact. If I'm wrong about that, please chime in. > > Before I go wandering off into the Kolab wilderness, never to be heard from > again, does anybody know if Kolab supports this global dist list capability? > I know you can hook Kontact into Kolab and use the addressbook that way, but > what I am not sure is if that global address book provided by Kolab will also > let users use dist lists globally in the same way that they currently do with > their own local copies. > > Does anybody have any experience in this area and know for certain if this > will or will not work? I'm having some difficulty trying to nail down this > feature in the docs without going through the trouble of setting of a test > environment. > > Alternatively, is there something else that would work for a global address > book and global dist list with Kontact? There is no requirement at this > time for anything other than the address book and dist list features of Kolab > so Kolab might be overkill if something else will do the trick. > > Thanks for any insight! > > Curtis > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFaqxwwRXgH3rKGfMRAlLxAJ999wpGEcBORRV6aFoaCQdlsodFagCdFYNS 71kfWF6vGCQtFhVjBAs988s= =phCB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
