Re: company-wide address book?

bbense+comp.unix.solaris.comp.os.linux.misc.Aug.29.03_at_telemark.slac.stanford.ed
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:05:25 +0000 (UTC)

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In article <news-CCCA25.21542921082003@news.tdl.com>,
Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:
>In article <3f455ac3$1@news.nccom.com>,
> jimmy@temp01.nccom.com (Jim Gottlieb) wrote:
>
>> My users are clamoring for a company-wide address book and contact
>> database and I agree we should have one. I guess people in the
>> MS-Windows world use Outlook for this, but I'm looking for suggestions
>> for our mixed Solaris/Linux/Mac OS X environment.
>>
>> Ideally, this address book could be accessed from various mail clients
>> like mutt, zmail, pine, Apple Mail, and Squirrel Mail. It would also
>> be nice if we could have company-wide entries, individual entries, and
>> entries shared only by certain groups of users.
>>
>> I hear LDAP mentioned a lot, but I'm not really sure where I would
>> start on a project like this.
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them.
>
>If you mean some sort of directory service that will fill in the name of
>someone when you partially enter their name, that depends on
>standardizing on a single mail client that supports some sort of
>directory service.
>
>Netscape Mail client and Netscape's Directory Service (an implementation
>of LDAP) will work. If you have divergent email clients, all bets are
>off. Pine, elm, and mutt don't have any sort of hook to a directory
>service. Never used zmail, Apple Mail, or Squirrle Mail.
>

_ You're a bit out of date, Pine has supported LDAP for at least
3-4 years and pretty much every relatively modern email client
supports LDAP.

_ The hard part of providing an LDAP directory is keeping the
info up to date and syncing it with whatever ever else your
company is using to keep records. The easy part is setting
up the server and email clients.

_ Booker C. Bense

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