* David Mateer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 04. 2002 09:56]: > Dear Everyone > > I'm looking into ldap directories. There is an open source ldap server > on www.openldap.org <http://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).
Pity you missed Colin's trials and tribulations with OpenMail last week. > I would like to offer webmail support too (through Apache, PHP, and > Squirrelmail - www.squirrelmail.org <http://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. Memory and the lack of disk space (>90% ext2 performance suffers quite badly). > My question is: is anyone running ldap services, do they think it is > worth it, and if not, what are the alternatives? Yes, Yes, it's worth it, but, it's in no way connected with Shared Diaries, other than perhaps maintaining User identification/authentication information, which you can store anywhere. Netscape's iPlanet is a commercial version of OpenLDAP (well, Netscape employed the original UMich developers). Have you looked at any of the other "Groupware" apps available? There's various options: http://www.tutos.org/ http://collaboffice.sourceforge.net/ http://www.phpgroupware.org/ This is just a quick summary, a search of freshmeat.net or Sourceforge.net will yield others, but these seem the most mature. HTH Kevin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
