RE: [Evolution] Active Directory

["Jeff Paquette" <paquette atnetsend net>]

PMFJI, but isn't AD just a full-(over)blown implementation of LDAP?  

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> [mailto:evolution-admin lists ximian com] On Behalf Of Wise, Jeremey
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 3:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Active Directory
>
> Pardon my being a whiner but doesn't this make Evolution as 
> an Exchange replacement rather broken. I puchased Evolution 
> under the pretense that I could replace all major 
> functionality. Being able to query to whom in corporate the 
> message will be going to is rather critical in nature.
>
> Now that I am done ranting: Is it (or has someone) build a 
> local OpenLDAP server and connection from it to AD, then 
> pointed Evolution to the local Open LDAP service for name 
> lookup? Based on my limited RTFM it seems this not only can 
> be done but is the only route to get Linux to speak to AD (ie 
> not just modifications to a client but having to impliment 
> the full server on each host). 
>
> Input greatly apreaciated.
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > Evolution doesn't support Active Directory, it only supports LDAP 
> > (unless Connector supports AD, but that's a separate product that I 
> > know very little about - same for most every Evolution hacker).
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:55 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: 
> > > How do I get Evolution to talk to active directory for 
> email account 
> > > lookup. I googled around. This is the only major catch 
> for migration 
> > > from Outlook to Evolution. It is a 'show stopper' though 
> as I can't 
> > > type worth a darn.
> > >
> > > Pointing me to documentation is perfectly fine. I googled 
> around and 
> > > hit only stuff from RH 6.2 erra.
> > >
> > > THanks,
> > >
> > > Jeremey Wise.
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