[wplug] LDAP

[Shawn Henderson]

I too am looking for basically M$ Exchange functionality. I have been 
looking at mostly goupware solutions to provide this. I found this ..
http://openchange.althost.net/  I havent installed it yet but Im looking 
to test this in the next few weeks.  If anyone has tried this please let 
me know the results..

Jason Jerome wrote:

> Does anyone have any information on LDAP for a novice?  I am interning
> at a small company that just uses a POP server as a mail client.  This
> is excellent for me, since I can use Thunderbird instead of Outlook for
> my email.
> 
> However, there is no way to share our contact lists amongst each other.
>  Right now, someone emails a file with all the updated email addresses
> in it, and everyone just uses their version of Outlook to import them.
> 
> I've been looking for a way to provide an easy way for us to keep a
> common shared address book for the company.  I've come across LDAP
> before, but I never really understood what it was doing.  
> 
>>From as far as I can tell, it provides a server where applications can
> get information about users.  I thought for a while that it was using
> some hybrid directory structure on a server, but I've read some stuff
> that leads me to believe that isn't the case. 
> Are there any good guides that can explain LDAP from a novice point of
> view?  Maybe even a simple LDAP server I could set up as a proof of
> concept?  I went to the OpenLDAP website, but I'm not even sure if that
> is the best one out there.  I remembered reading a few emails on this
> list about LDAP.
> 
> We have a Linux server right now for our BugZilla installation, but I'd
> probably be setting it up at home on my Fedora box.  Anyone have any
> suggestions where I could start?  Is this overkill for the results I'm
> looking for?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> 
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