From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 17 17:33:16 2006 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 4FB3916A4DA for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:33:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nagylzs@freemail.hu) Received: from smtp.enternet.hu (smtp.enternet.hu [62.112.192.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E2DC43D5D for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:33:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nagylzs@freemail.hu) Received: from [62.112.205.96] (helo=[172.16.0.43]) by smtp.enternet.hu with esmtpa (Exim 4) id 1G2Wxx-000IqU-Pe; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:33:09 +0200 Message-ID: <44BBC9F9.1050305@freemail.hu> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:33:45 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TmFneSBMw6FzemzDsyBac29sdA==?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Atom Powers , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44B7DB07.6010908@enternet.hu> <44BB403C.6060302@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: LDAP Thunderbird and security (OFF) 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, 17 Jul 2006 17:33:16 -0000 > First, OpenLDAP isn't easy to set up; but it's worth the trouble. > You should probably move this to the openldap list, or the thunderbird > list, since it really has nothing to do with FreeBSD. Yes, this is (OFF), see the subject. Unfortunately, the openldap mailing list is not active. I could hardly subscribe, and then nobody answered. > > I have Thurderbird reading my directory, but I haven't worked on > getting Thunderbird to write to an LDAP directory. You need to set up > your LDAP with TLS and the proper ACLs; and depending on your > situation you may want a seperate ou for the address book. Maybe even > a seperate ou for each user (ouch). No special schema required, it > should read the standard "mail", "phone", etc attributes. Check the > LDAP RFCs for a complete list. > Well, after a day messing with these, I tried to find other solutions. Here is what I found: http://www.gargan.org/extensions/synckolab.html It is not perfect, because you need to press a button to synchronize. But it is easy to install, and it uses the already existing IMAP server. Thank you Laszlo