Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server

[Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com>]

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Hello Abraham,

I have been looking at LDAP myself for ages now, but understand almost
nothing of it ;-) Anyways, your (first) mail got me thinking to test it
myself again. I hit the same brick wall you did. It seems that the
current thunderbird does *not* support LDAP at all (although it does
present it as an option). I tried from an example on a website (to test
with their ldap), aswell as random "off-my-head" values but it does not
append it to the address book.

Maybe it's a thunderbird bug, I don't know (I haven't looked yet)?

All I'm doing here is confirming your problem, not solving it (although
I would be interested if there is a solution) ;-) Maybe it requires
openldap to be installed (I only installed it so far on my server, not
workstation)?

Greetings
Ralph

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> 
>    I recently had some problems sharing my contacts with more than one
> mail client, so I decided to run a local LDAP server. I emerged OpenLDAP
> and checked it with phpLDAPadmin. I can browse server's database and
> add/remove/modify contacts with phpLDAPadmin, but I can't connect to it
> with a mail application; I tried both Evolution and Thunderbird and I
> got nothing.
> 
>    The one I care the most is Thunderbird. I tried to add a link to the
> server from the Address Book: FILE -> NEW -> LDAP DIRECTORY; I typed
> what I think is the right parameters and tried, but nothing happened. Am
> I doing anything wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Abraham
> 
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