Hello John,
John Dennis wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:36 +0200, Alexandre Jousset wrote:
My question is regarding the LDAP support in address book: I've seen
some functions about changing entries in the server and also the
possibility to bind with login / password. Does this mean that one day
(hopefully soon) there will be full support for an address book in an
LDAP server ?
[...]
I think perhaps you may have a misunderstanding concerning the intent of
the LDAP support, at least as LDAP is typically used.
"Typically used", that's the word ;-) See below...
[...]
If the reason you want your personal address book information in a
central repository such as LDAP is to all lookup's from multiple
computers then realize this is already supported by both RoundCube's
backing database and the fact it is a web based application, either
means of access gives you remote multi-platform access.
My goal was to use RoundCube as a webmail and also allow people, when
they are at home / work, to use another client like Thunderbird or
Outlook. As they both do not allow to modify LDAP contacts, and as I've
seen functions to do that in the file
../program/include/rcube_ldap.inc, I was just wondering if it was
possible and / or planned with RC.
You answered me about the future of RC *not* allowing to change
contacts in LDAP, and thus the patch may not be welcome. I understand
your point.
It's true that I don't plan to use LDAP as usual, but as you said just
(in part) for a central repository for contacts and use ACLs to forbid
reading of other users' addresses. This is not for a company but just
for my own server where I host some services (mail, web, DNS, etc.) for
friends and family ;-)
Well it's not a problem, I'm going to write a web UI to do that on my
site :-)
Regards,
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