Re: LDAP and e-mail

["David E. Storey" <dave@tamos.net>]

> does anyone here use LDAP to provide a way of searching e-mail addresses?
>
> Maybe someone here is coping with a similar problem or is using LDAP to
> provide address books to mail clients, I would be very interested in
> exchanging information (mainly asking some questions).

I would *love* to be able to hold _personal_ address books in LDAP.  Pine can
use LDAP to search, but not to manage. (at least, it's not obvious that you
can) Netscape Communicator v4.5 has a new option to store roaming profiles on
LDAP or HTTP servers.  I've managed to get HTTP to work, but not LDAP.  It
keeps complaining about authentication problems. (It's the same LDAP server I
successfully use with nss_ldap authentication) I've tried everything I know and
I still can't get it to work.  Anyhoo, Communicator v4.5 allows you to store,
among other things, your personal addressbook in LDAP.  Since I haven't gotten
it to work, I don't know what format they store it in.  It would be way cool if
this was standardized in some way so Pine, Netscape, Eudora, etc. could all
access and maintain the same personal addressbook in a unified manner. (*THAT*
would be cool!  Of course ACAP works for that too, but Eudora v4.0 is the only
client I know that supports it.)

On a server front, I noticed that qmail has a patch to work with LDAP for more
than just address lookups.  (I'm about to try it out.)  It will supposedly
store forwarding addresses, alternate addresses, mail quotas, delivery program
paths, etc.  Looks groovy.  It has its own 'qmailUser' class and is marked as
beta/pseudo-alpha. (http://www.nrg4u.com/)

d