[scottish] LDAP

[David Mateer]

Dear Everyone   I’m looking into ldap directories.  There is an open source ldap server on www.openldap.org   One of the definitions I’ve found of ldap is: “…an Internet protocol that email programs use to look up contact information from a server..”  Now this sounds exactly what I want.   Basically my goal is to setup a global address book for a group, that do not want to buy MS Exchange.  They would also like a shared diary (which Squirrelmail offers in very rudimentary form).   I would like to offer webmail support too (through Apache, PHP, and Squirrelmail – www.squirrelmail.org , and I’ve setup and imap server from University of Washington –  www.washington.edu/imap/).  The imap, and webmail works very well, and I can recommend their very simple and effective interfaces.  I’ve had fairly limited success with openldap, and it seemed to be running very slowly on my linux server (albeit a 233MHZ, 64Mb with hardly any disk space), and it seemed to be complex.    My question is:  is anyone running ldap services, do they think it is worth it, and if not, what are the alternatives?   Kind regards   David Mateer Interlynx m: 0701 070 6032 e:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] w:  www.interlynx.co.uk