It took a while to install as there is at least one significant bug (as at 4/2004).
I think the moz ldap interface is read-only which is a pity.
Evolution on Linux is read/write so much better from the gui/ldap backend perspective.
There is also work in the KDE space with Kontact and Kolab but haven't had the time to test them.
Rolodap didn't do it for me but that was 1.5 years ago.
HTH
Stu
David Gillies wrote:
Matthew Davidson wrote:
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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