[NBLUG/talk] Address book sharing

[Robert P. Thille]

On 01/08/2015 09:06 AM, Omar Eljumaily wrote:
> Thanks Sujit.  I would like to use LDAP.  However, I think that in Thunderbird, you can't add/modify entries in LDAP address books.
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> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86405
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> This is a problem for me.  I might take a look at Thunderbird's code and see how hard it would be to fix it.
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> Does anybody know if LDAP works properly in Outlook?  I think it's originally an MS protocol, so it probably should work.

LDAP isn't originally an MS protocol.  IIRC, it was a university project as a lightweight alternative to some ISO standard (X.500?).

Robert

>
> Thanks,
>
> Omar
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>
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> On 1/8/2015 3:54 AM, Sujit Karataparambil wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 21:44, Omar Eljumaily <omar at omnicode.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anybody have any tips on apps/servers for email address book
>> sharing across clients?  I've looked at this and nothing sounds very
>> exciting.
>>
>>
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books
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>> http://www.sudleyplace.com/LDAP/index.en.html
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