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Date:      Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:42:22 +0200
From:      Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org>
To:        Jerod Prothe <jprothe@usd217.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: centralized address book
Message-ID:  <4325A1DE.3090704@locolomo.org>
In-Reply-To: <43259D2B.4090802@usd217.org>
References:  <43259D2B.4090802@usd217.org>

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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

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