Re: [Evolution] LDAP Address Book Setup

[Michael Pike <michael pike shiprock ihs gov>]

I agree.... NS 6.2 has a nice look.... but I like EVO...

Here is one issue I ran into with NS...

Until we can get Evo LDAP to work reliably,  I was thinking of pushing
NS clients to our Linux folks...

One feature our LDAP does is provide additional info about a user...
name, address, phone... a lot of people use OUTLOOK for this feature..

Mozilla will allow you to open up contacts, and SEARCH the LDAP
diretory, and get that info.

Netscape doesn't!  At least I can't get it to work.... the LDAP will not
show up in the contact lists in the address book.  Autocomplete is
fine... but they have removed the search ability in NS62, unless any of
you have found it... I sure haven't.... we need contact info as well.

Drop me a note if you got NS62 to do an address book lookup with details
in the address book.

thanks,
mike


On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 16:44, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 12:05, Sean M Alderman wrote:
> > I have to agree.  ldap lookups work for me, but it's schetchy.  The
> only
> > real reason why I want to have an ldap source configured is because
> I'd
> > like to have it autocomplete.  Netscape 4.x/Mozilla/Netscape 6.x both
> do
> > this from ldap sources very nicely.  We don't use Exchange/Outlook
> here,
> > but the look/feel features of Evo are much nicer than any other Gnome
> > email client, so that's why I use it.  With more than 4000 people
> here,
> > and email addresses being
> firstname middleinitial lastname grc nasa gov
> > it's a big pain to have to memorize addresses.
>
> Amen!  LDAP sorta-kinda works, occasionally, but certainly not
> reliably.  And autocompletion doesn't work at all (in fact, it usually
> hangs the mail client when I try and use it!).  And at least y'all at
> NASA have a naming convention for email addresses!  Here at HP, the
> corporate LDAP database contains over 200k unique people and
> distribution list email addresses, and none of them use a naming
> convention.  I just use a shell script around ldapsearch to lookup email
> addresses, then manually copy & paste 'em into evolution.  The LDAP
> functionality in evo is not even remotely usable here.  Like others, I
> also find that, in contrast, the Netscape/Mozilla LDAP autocompletion
> feature works quite nicely and reliably.  I still use evo, since it is
> quite an excellent email client in almost every other way, but I sure
> wish the LDAP stuff worked.
>
> > On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 12:23, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> > > ons, 2002-08-14 kl. 12:40 skrev Tong Eng Chiah:
> > >
> > > >  i'm using it.
> > > > works fine.
> > >
> > > No it doesn't! Even if people do as you say.
>
> Cheers!
> -- 
> Brett Johnson <brett_johnson hp com>
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