On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, David Mateer wrote: > Many thank to Colin, Kevin and Andrew for getting back to me. > > Regarding openldap - my (simple) goal is have it running a global > address book, and connecting to Outlook clients. > > The problem I have run up against is the netscape 4.77 connects very > well to ldap, and will show the entire list of addresses if given a * > for name. However Outlook does not like this (I can list all email > addresses in Outlook Express containing an @ - however this is not a > very usable solution. Outlook 2002 doesn't seem to do this well > either). > > Apart from running different mail clients (this is not an option > unfortunately), is there a better way of providing a good global address > book. I haven't really looked at how to add, modify, or delete entries > yet!
Sounds like the search filter is set differently in the mail clients. You may be able to set this. I just had a look in Outlook 2002, all I could see to set was the search base, which presumably you've set? Maybe there is a registry value you can change. Andrew -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
