Recalling a SLUG talk from a few years ago about LDAP, I thought here's the very thing. A day of cursing and growling later, I'm not so sure.
Most of the tutorials on this subject are based on the premise that you're creating your own database and front-end from scratch, rather than a database that existing apps can use (I'm principally concerned about Thunderbird here).
There are a few LDAP-based apps that claim to use Netscape-compatible address books, but all of those I've tried are so flaky that they don't generate anything but error messages.
Has anybody else tried this with any success? Any tools/resources been especially useful?
At home I setup up an LDAP server using OpenLDAP, nothing fancy. Then I used phpldapadmin (http://phpldapadmin.sf.net/) to create the addresses in my directory. I've accessed this using Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird's addressbook component, and also using the addressbook function under MS Entourage and Addressbook in Mac OS X.
For another way of doing this (specifically for creating an ldap-based addressbook) perhaps you could try out rolodap (http://rolodap.sourceforge.net/).
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