Re: [Evolution] Configuring Evolution 2.0 for LDAP lookups

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Is that evolution compiled with ldap support?  Evolution should come with a fairly comprehensive user manual, is that not installed?

You should be able to get a "new addressbook" from the new toolbar button, and go from there, it is fairly simple/obvious from that point.


On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:03 +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking for some documentation/examples on how to setup
> Evolution 2.0 (as shipped on Fedora Core 3) to use a remote LDAP server
> for address completion. There is no documentation in the package. On
> the internet, I can only find discussion/documents on how to set this
> up for Evolution-1.4.
>
> When I go to Tools->Settings->autocompletion, I cannot do
> anything with the 'On LDAP Servers' option.
>
> Now it seems there is an xml file called addresbook-sources.xml
> that could provide the LDAP information. However none is shipped
> with the package and there is no information as to how to write
> such a file and where it should be. I have a fresh install of
> fedora Core 3, as such there can be no migration from former setup.
>
> My question is: How do you specify a LDAP server to Evolution 2.0?
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
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