Re: [Evolution] Storing contact lists in LDAP

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 12:53 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> On 01/07/10 10:21, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > On 29/06/10 09:43, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> > > I'm trying to store contact lists from Evolution to OpenLDAP.
> > > While it works with local addressbook, it does not on a LDAP directory,
> > > with the Evolution schema loaded.
> > > Is there a special trick to apply to get it to work?
> > > Thanks
> > Some more information about it:
> > Evolution is running on Ubuntu 9.10 or 10.04 (same problem), and the
> > evolutionperson.schema comes from it.
> > OpenLDAP 2.4.7 (slapd) is running on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04).
> > If I understand correctly, the evolutionPersonList should work, but it
> > does not seem to...
> > No-one?
> Someone here got it to work some day, at least?

I had it working [or at least I'm pretty certain I did], but a *long*
time ago.  There are *serious* problems with trying to use a directory
server as a groupware stand-in; we gave up.  The issues aren't with
Evolution (or at least weren't then) but just with how LDAP is used [or
not] by applications.
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