Re: LDAP Support

[Gary Pullis <gpullis clwares com>]

Will we get to the point where LDAP is compiled in by default?
(Yes, I am a lazy RPM user. Sorry.)

On 2000.11.27 02:04:55 -0500 Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:00:12 Ralph Churchill wrote:
> > I'm trying to get LDAP to work for Balsa 1.0. I had to modify
> > configure.in to include "-lresolv". Without it, the LDAP test was
> > failing.  It  builds just fine with that addition and ldapsearch works
> > fine from the command-line, but Balsa always says it can't find the
> LDAP
> > server (or crashes). I've tried about every combination of server and
> > base domain name and nothing works!!! Any ideas? This is really the
> only
> > thing keeping me from using Balsa. I work in a corporate environment
> and
> > we use LDAP all the time.... Thanks.
> 
> Interesting.  I suppose its configure's job to find -lresolv.
> Its interesting that -lresolv does not get added.  It should need that
> for the sendmail host too, shouldn't it?
> 
> As to why it doesn't work, please try the ldap server's IP, and
> for Domain name, you need to enter what you enter as the -b
> parameter in ldapsearch.
> 
> For me, I use 
> ldapsearch -b "dc=ucs, dc=co, dc=za" -h jhb.ucs.co.za "(email=*)"
> so my Base Domain name is "dc=ucs, dc=co, dc=za" (without the quotes).
> If you don't use a -b option, I can send you a patch that will
> accept "".  The patch works for me, but my LDAP server doesn't accept
> "" (returns no addresses), so its untested.
> 
> btw, I'm really interested to know if it works, and how big your LDAP
> directory is (100, 1,000 or 10,000 entries.).  Balsa /will/ be slow
> with big directories - so you may want to change LDAP_CACHE_TIMEOUT
> in libbalsa/address-book-ldap.c, as it isn't configurable yet.
> I'm planning (ahem) to make it work nicer with big directories,
> or over slow lines.  It is an outstanding bug.
>  
> > RMC
> > 
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> 
> Kind regards,				  
> Berend                                  
> 
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