Re: LDAP and e-mail

[Mark Wilcox <mewilcox@unt.edu>]

Hi,
You should just need to use the person objectclass and set the mail attribute to make
an address book. If you want to check out how Netscape is setup, just export out the
address book because it exports it to LDIF. You can ignore the attributes that contain
xmozilla.
I have tested this on one of my test LDAP servers and has worked fine from
Outlook,Outlook Express, Netscape 4.06 (haven't tried 4.5 yet but that shouldn't be a
problem) and a LDAP client plugin for Groupwise 5.2.

Mark

Andy C. Brandt wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 02:30:46PM -0600, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> > Exchange uses a module that allows you to access it's email address book
> > from a LDAP client.
>
> So - to mimic the Exchange's behavior to an Exchange client I need to
> provide an LDAP server containing the central address book? But what about
> the format of the entries? Using the "person" object class and "email" field
> would be enough?
>
> [...]
> > I believe the latest Sendmail allows you to search against LDAP for email
> > aliasing, so it can operate in a similar fashion to Exchange if you need to make
> > it appear like Exchange to managment types. :) Except of course this will likely
> > run faster and be much more available than your Exchange server. :)
>
> Well, I don't have an Exchange server. In fact I have seen one twice in my
> life, but I was asked if it's possible to obtain same functionality with a
> Unix (Linux) based server. I know it's possible on the e-mail forwarding and
> retrieving side (using any of fine Unix MDAs and some post office type
> server like qpopper) but I want to know what else I have to provide to
> clients to get what they are looking for. I heard from them that
> addressbooks are important and so I came across LDAP.
>
> What I need now is to know how to format the entries in the LDAP's server
> database to get the clients to behave correctly (ie. expand and browse
> addresses).
>
> BTW - none of the Microsoft "gurus" I asked (people who have been trained at
> special classes and operate large Exchange servers) knew what protocols
> Exchange uses. They were talking some strange language instead.
>
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