[Gllug] Experiences with Thunderbird and LDAP

[Ashley]

Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:

>Ashley <hoshy at hoshy.co.uk> asked:
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>>I was wondereding if anybody has been using ldap addressbooks in 
>>thunderbird.  I've got them working happily but the two sticking
>>points, although not major, are shared mailling lists and
>>edit/creating new contacts....
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>>So, any suggestions, comments ?
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>Nothing that will help you move further forward, I'm afraid. I realised 
>a few months ago that I could use Thunderbird to access my Groupwise 
>email via IMAP (rather than relying on the GW webaccess client) but 
>still haven't figured out how to query the central LDAP address book 
>(although typing the same ldap://... address into IE on my Windows box 
>does bring up a suitable query tool).
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>Therefore, I'd be interested to know how you got your present level of 
>access working! I did some reading round the topic when I started using 
>Thunderbird but didn't find anything that helped me crack it (FWIW, I'm 
>using a fully uptodate install of Ubuntua 'Hoary' 05.04).
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>Wulf
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I'm affraid I didn't actually do anything special.  Once I got the 
contacts in the directory I just gave thunderbird 
ou=Contacts,dc=company,dc=domain

Sorry, not much help.

Anybody:  I'm getting stuck for an app for windows that would allow 
ordinary desktop users  to edit/create entries.  I'd rather not go 
web-based but not too bothered either way.

Ashley
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