Re: LDAP and e-mail

[Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.on.ca>]

> does anyone here use LDAP to provide a way of searching e-mail addresses?
> 
> My interest in LDAP is caused by the fact that I'm trying to figure out what
> would be needed to provide the functionality of MS Exchange Server using
> Linux and open source tools. That's what a company asks for if they are to
> consider switching their e-mail handling to Linux. As we all know basic
> e-mail + POP3/IMAP are easy to provide. However, Exchange provides something
> more - some kind of centrally managed address books. As far as I was able to
> figure out this is based on LDAP, but I don't know exactly how it works (in
> part because of my Unix/Linux background I don't know MS "solutions" well).

I am doing this on a very small scale.  I have an LDAP server which holds
an address book which I then use mainly from Linux-Pine and PC-Pine.  With
Pine 4.0x you can set it up to expand email addresses directly from the
LDAP server.  I have also tried it from both Outlook Express and Netscape
Mail and both of these can talk to this LDAP server as well.

-Rasmus