Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server

[Abraham Marín Pérez]

Well, after using Ethereal to see the parameters sent during the 
transaction, it does work, I can browse the LDAP database. The problem 
now is that LDAP access seems to be read only and I'd like to be able to 
add new contacts to the directory from Thunderbird, is this possible? 
and is this secure to be done through Internet?

Thanks,
Abraham

Brett Schroeder escribió:

> The OpenLDAP client is *not* needed on the machine running T-bird - do
> something like the following to convince yourself that t-bird does
> *not* require the ldap client
>
> grep -i ldap
> /var/db/pkg/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2/{,R,P}DEPEND
>
> All the work is in setting up the server. Thunderbird itself requires
> only a few simple pieces of info.
>
> See this
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html
>
> and here's some more links (somewhat dated now but they get you
> thinking in the right direction)
>
> http://collingrady.com/2004/07/02/moz-ldap/
> http://www.topology.org/comms/ldap.html
>
> The best way to get this working (as is the case for any client-server
> software) is to use ethereal/tcpdump to capture the network requests
> made by t-bird. Then you will see exactly what requests are being sent
> to & from the server. This requires that you understand the protocol
> and how your server has  implemented it
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2251.txt
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/
>
> LDAP schemas & servers are way too much fun ;-)
>
> Brett
>
> Ralph Slooten wrote:
>
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>> Hello Abraham,
>>
>> I have been looking at LDAP myself for ages now, but understand almost
>> nothing of it ;-) Anyways, your (first) mail got me thinking to test it
>> myself again. I hit the same brick wall you did. It seems that the
>> current thunderbird does *not* support LDAP at all (although it does
>> present it as an option). I tried from an example on a website (to test
>> with their ldap), aswell as random "off-my-head" values but it does not
>> append it to the address book.
>>
>> Maybe it's a thunderbird bug, I don't know (I haven't looked yet)?
>>
>> All I'm doing here is confirming your problem, not solving it (although
>> I would be interested if there is a solution) ;-) Maybe it requires
>> openldap to be installed (I only installed it so far on my server, not
>> workstation)?
>>
>> Greetings
>> Ralph
>>
>> Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone:
>>>
>>>   I recently had some problems sharing my contacts with more than one
>>> mail client, so I decided to run a local LDAP server. I emerged
>>> OpenLDAP
>>> and checked it with phpLDAPadmin. I can browse server's database and
>>> add/remove/modify contacts with phpLDAPadmin, but I can't connect to it
>>> with a mail application; I tried both Evolution and Thunderbird and I
>>> got nothing.
>>>
>>>   The one I care the most is Thunderbird. I tried to add a link to the
>>> server from the Address Book: FILE -> NEW -> LDAP DIRECTORY; I typed
>>> what I think is the right parameters and tried, but nothing
>>> happened. Am
>>> I doing anything wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Abraham
>>>
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