> I am reviewing IMail to use in our organisation (700 users, 4 > servers). I was wondering if it is possible to set up a global > address book to be accessed through LDAP that contains all users > from all servers.
The problem you're encountering is endemic to LDAP, not IMail. LDAP has a robust concept of simple referrals, so if you were searching multiple LDAP bases for users (such as dc=example,dc=com and dc=example2,dc=com) you'd be able to set up a central LDAP server for the users to hit that would in turn steer them to other servers. Yet while some mail clients can follow referrals automatically, that won't help you, because referrals only apply when the base DN of a search is NOT part of the LDAP server's directory tree. In your case, you want to get users in the SAME base DN from different servers, yet any one of those servers considers itself authoritative for that base DN, so it will never refer you anywhere else. LDAP also has smart referrals (a.k.a. search references, a.k.a. continuation references), which are eactly what you need in theory--daisy-chain pointers to other LDAP URLs that may contain additional data for the same search criteria--but they are probably not supported by your mail client (which is...?) at this point. You could probably do what you're referring to using IMail's AD connector and some tricky business with the AD hierarchy, but if you're not an LDAP expert (or don't have the time to become one), I wouldn't go barking there. ILDAP doesn't interact with IMail peering, and again your client probably wouldn't care if it did. You should see what you can do with periodic LDIF replication to a central server, or just add the address book listing to your add/change/delete workflow--easier, of course, if you're already scripting such things. -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ 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/
