The OpenLDAP client is *not* needed on the machine running T-bird - do
something like the following to convince yourself that t-bird does *not*
require the ldap client
grep -i ldap /var/db/pkg/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2/{,R,P}DEPEND
All the work is in setting up the server. Thunderbird itself requires only a
few simple pieces of info.
See this
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html
and here's some more links (somewhat dated now but they get you thinking in
the right direction)
http://collingrady.com/2004/07/02/moz-ldap/
http://www.topology.org/comms/ldap.html
The best way to get this working (as is the case for any client-server
software) is to use ethereal/tcpdump to capture the network requests made by
t-bird. Then you will see exactly what requests are being sent to & from the
server. This requires that you understand the protocol and how your server has
implemented it
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2251.txt
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/
LDAP schemas & servers are way too much fun ;-)
Brett
Ralph Slooten wrote:
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Hello Abraham,
I have been looking at LDAP myself for ages now, but understand almost
nothing of it ;-) Anyways, your (first) mail got me thinking to test it
myself again. I hit the same brick wall you did. It seems that the
current thunderbird does *not* support LDAP at all (although it does
present it as an option). I tried from an example on a website (to test
with their ldap), aswell as random "off-my-head" values but it does not
append it to the address book.
Maybe it's a thunderbird bug, I don't know (I haven't looked yet)?
All I'm doing here is confirming your problem, not solving it (although
I would be interested if there is a solution) ;-) Maybe it requires
openldap to be installed (I only installed it so far on my server, not
workstation)?
Greetings
Ralph
Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
Hi everyone:
I recently had some problems sharing my contacts with more than one
mail client, so I decided to run a local LDAP server. I emerged OpenLDAP
and checked it with phpLDAPadmin. I can browse server's database and
add/remove/modify contacts with phpLDAPadmin, but I can't connect to it
with a mail application; I tried both Evolution and Thunderbird and I
got nothing.
The one I care the most is Thunderbird. I tried to add a link to the
server from the Address Book: FILE -> NEW -> LDAP DIRECTORY; I typed
what I think is the right parameters and tried, but nothing happened. Am
I doing anything wrong?
Thanks,
Abraham
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