From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 15:42:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E2916A429 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:42:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (62-15-72-65.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.72.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B7B43D45 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:42:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.24.8.84] (generic.ATOSORIGIN.ES [212.170.156.200]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3ECD2E01B; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:42:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4325A1DE.3090704@locolomo.org> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:42:22 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050824) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerod Prothe References: <43259D2B.4090802@usd217.org> In-Reply-To: <43259D2B.4090802@usd217.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: centralized address book X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:42:31 -0000 Jerod Prothe wrote: > My organization lost its Exchange server, and now users are wanting to > have a common address book that they call all use, so anyone can start > typing "Joe Blo.." and his address pops up in their mail client. > They're all using Outlook and I was thinking - is this a job for > openldap? I haven't done an ldap installation before, but I thought > this would be a good use for it. Am I correct in assuming that? > Thanks. Yes! And googling openldap + addressbook you get this article on onlamp: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html Have fun! :-) But before you start, ask yourself: Are there other stuff you can pack into this directory? eg. user administration? Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: www.daemonsecurity.com/ca/8D03551FFCE04F06.crt Subject ID: 9E:AA:18:E6:94:7A:91:44:0A:E4:DD:87:73:7F:4E:82:E7:08:9C:72 Fingerprint: 5B:D5:1E:3E:47:E7:EC:1C:4C:C8:3A:19:CC:AE:14:F5:DF:18:0F:B9