Re: [Evolution] Mailing Labels

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:53, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> tor, 11.12.2003 kl. 17.45 skrev Donald Henson:
>
> > > Hmmm ... those using LDAP for both will have no trouble with either.
> > > LDAP rules ;)
> > 
> > Would you expand a bit on your comment. It sounds like a potential
> > solution to my problem but I know very little about LDAP.
>
> I wouldn't know how to begin: LDAP is an attitude of mind. LDAP is
> Pandora's magic box, it has no bottom, contains infinite possibilities
> and is the heart and soul of any installation that I make. If a service
> such as login, ssh, su, gdm/Gnome/KDE, my mail server, IMAP server,
> address book, Samba, Apache - anything apart from DNS (though that can
> as well) doesn't work with a single LDAP database, it's useless. Even
> Evo works with LDAP. Even OpenOffice.org works with LDAP.
>
> LDAP is a single, central database for a system, network or
> organization, into which you can stuff every thinkable detail. Learning
> how to cope with it is *not* easy, can cost you months. As I said, it's
> an attitude of mind - either you want it and are prepared to take the
> trouble to learn about it, or you don't.
>
> Microsoft has a variant called Active Directory, Novell eDirectory, Sun
> Sun One, IBM ... My chosen are Openldap and eDirectory - which goes
> further than Openldap, but isn't necessarily better.
>
> --Tonni

I guess I'd better put on my research hat and get busy. Thanks for the added words.

Don Henson