Geoffrey Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Tarjei Huse wrote:
> >
> > What I am seeing a lot of is one app his addressbook. My situation is,
> > that I cannot afford exchange, but I need a way to give my useres the
> > possiblility to add and change contacts to a global adressbook as well
> > as their own abooks AND be able as well to reach these with our webmail
> > (right now; squirrellmail , 'am thinking of phpgw).
> > Thus, I need something that can interact with a server outside mozilla,
> > and that should be an ldap server (IMHO).
>
> Ok, this is not per se, what people in this newsgroup generally mean
> when they say LDAP addressbooks...
>
> They mean, a LDAP directory accessed via the IP address of the server,
> that contains a large list of users that you can search for individuals.
>
> This is the functionality that Netscape 4.xx had, and what the Mozilla
> clients now have as well.
Well, we're getting there. :-)
> What you want is a little different. I wonder, is there a standard set
> of schema extensions to hold the address book info that you want to
> add? That is a critical point, as you want something that works cross
> platform... I guess you could set up an Exchange2000 box, create one,
> dump out the schema and port it into a LDAP tree. But is that a
> standard, or just the way MS did it?
>
> So you would add an auxillairy class that contained multi-valued
> attributes for phone book entries... But then you have to decide how to
> do your schema... MS's AD has a weakness in multi-valued attributes, so
> they probably don't do it that way...
Ugh. Multi-valued attributes. We don't really deal with them very
well either, at the moment. There's an open bug on this somewhere,
probably assigned to me.
> > ALso, in my dreams, the ldapcontacts are seamlessly integrated with the
> > users other contacts...
>
> This is coming in 0.94 isn't it? I was reading Dan M/'s status reports
> and it looks like he has the intergration well along the way !
Well, some of the patches for 0.9.4 from abzilla.mozdev.org have
already landed, but not all the UI ones. In 0.9.4, to use LDAP-based
addressbooks, you'll need to tweak prefs.js by hand as described on
abzilla.mozdev.org.
Dan
