Trust me, I feel your pain Josh. Our setup here is not elaborate by any means. It's just that PAB's are fine for ISP's with users(subscribers) doing what they do. However, organizations need a more robust way of managing their contacts. And yes, it's a pain to have to create a user every time someone wants to add a new corporate contact. So, if I really have say 500 users in our company that are valid email users(active) it gets old having to look at the thousands of disabled user accounts(added for GAB entries). And the duplicates entries that seem to show up out of nowhere every time you make a change(due to poor Imail LDAP house cleaning) gets old as well....anyway I'll get off my soap box now. Like I said...JMHO and that's all. What do you want for $900.00 bucks anyway right!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Levitsky Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT:Global Address Book The only sad things about LDAP in IMail are that it doesn't support having contacts that are non-accounts like you can do in Exchange. Would be nice if you could use an LDAP tool to create OU's in the LDAP that would be for Contacts rather than just accounts on the server. We use LDAP here at AOL Time Warner that way, but we're using more enterprise oriented stuff for that stuff like iPlanet directory server. Also would be nice if LDAP could be used if you have virtual hosts... very un-hosting-friendly on IMail's part the way they set up LDAP. It should support OU's for virtual hosts and manage access control based on which virtual host you are on so [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be DN=OU=Users,DC=joshie,DC=com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be in DN=OU=Users,DC=shmegegie,DC=com and LDAP could keep shmegegie.com folks from seeing joshie.com folks and the other way around. Without this LDAP is useless to those of us that run several domains on one IP address. -Josh On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 10:22 AM, Bob McGregor wrote: > Read up on the ldap feature, it works for a global address book. We > are a school district that has 1400 employees and with ldap in place > we can use the ldap feature to find any teacher on names contains any > portion of their name as well as e-mail an entire building > (organization) department (organizational unit) or any combination. > > Example, if someone wants to e-mail all 3rd grade teachers at a > particular building they can do it using the ldap server in imail. > Also allow you to keep it up to date centrally when adding/removing > accounts. In my mind, much better and more usable than a standard > global address book. > > oh, and is an online phone directory for us as well. To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
