Per Qvindesland wrote:
I just installed a ldap address book last week, I will no go into
the
detail of how pain fule the configuration was, information in a simple
human way is difficult to find but I would definetly recommend LDAP,
since it is more (easy) to integrate into a email reader, by putting
easy in brackets I do mean in brackets, evolution is not to bad but it
does things in a really stupid way, I.E it don't remember the Manager
password so the user that needs access to writing into the ldap needs to
know it, do I suspect that you could get around it by creating a ldap
user with write access to your tables, I have never tried mysql for only
a address book but I would not recommend it since mysql is generally
after my opinion slower and the email readers don't really support it,
if you need some pointer let me know I am going to write my little how
to at some stage now on how to set it up.
Thanks for your reply.
I think I will follow your advice, and go with LDAP.
I've been reading chapter 20 of "Linux Home Server HOWTO",
"Shared Address Book (LDAP)", by Miles Brennan <brennan.id.au>,
at <
http://www.brennan.id.au/>.
This seems to contain fairly explicit instructions
for setting up LDAP and adding an address book.
I'll contact you if I do meet any problems, thanks.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm thinking of setting up an address-book on my server,
> but I'm not sure whether to use LDAP or MySQL.
>
> As I see it, LDAP is actually designed for this,
> and seems to have a more-or-less standard address-book format.
> On the other hand, I'm already using MySQL for several things,
> eg gallery2.
>
> But there doesn't seem to be any standard address-book format
> for SQL.
> Another thing, kmail and other mail clients
> seem to have standard LDAP interfaces.
>
> I don't really like LDAP, but it seems the way to go.
> Is that right ... ?
> I'd be interested to hear your views.
>
>
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