From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4OsJ-0008FE-1A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:14:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7EKDIfn005616; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:13:18 GMT Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7EK9gmL014955 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:09:43 GMT Received: from anapurna.brettschroeder.name (c-24-20-125-129.hsd1.or.comcast.net[24.20.125.129]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20050814201002012005lsaie>; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:10:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Anapurna.brettschroeder.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C4D6129 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Anapurna.brettschroeder.name ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Anapurna.BrettSchroeder.name [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75003-08 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.7] (K2 [192.168.0.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "brett@brettschroeder.name", Issuer "brettschroeder.name" (verified OK)) by Anapurna.brettschroeder.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id D859A60F6 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42FFA514.909@brettschroeder.name> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:09:56 -0700 From: Brett Schroeder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server References: <42FF5AC6.6090500@alumni.uv.es> <42FF6468.7010903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42FF6468.7010903@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at brettschroeder.name Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7EKDIg9005616 X-Archives-Salt: a057bac7-b438-4254-9631-0470a6911291 X-Archives-Hash: 583a06a06869f5dfcf54e32720b713f1 The OpenLDAP client is *not* needed on the machine running T-bird - do=20 something like the following to convince yourself that t-bird does *not*=20 require the ldap client grep -i ldap /var/db/pkg/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2/{,R,P}D= EPEND All the work is in setting up the server. Thunderbird itself requires onl= y a=20 few simple pieces of info. See this http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html and here's some more links (somewhat dated now but they get you thinking = in=20 the right direction) http://collingrady.com/2004/07/02/moz-ldap/ http://www.topology.org/comms/ldap.html The best way to get this working (as is the case for any client-server=20 software) is to use ethereal/tcpdump to capture the network requests made= by=20 t-bird. Then you will see exactly what requests are being sent to & from = the=20 server. This requires that you understand the protocol and how your serve= r has=20 implemented it http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2251.txt http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/ LDAP schemas & servers are way too much fun ;-) Brett Ralph Slooten wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Hello Abraham, >=20 > 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. >=20 > Maybe it's a thunderbird bug, I don't know (I haven't looked yet)? >=20 > 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)? >=20 > Greetings > Ralph >=20 > Abraham Mar=C3=ADn P=C3=A9rez wrote: >=20 >>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 OpenLDA= P >>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. A= m >>I doing anything wrong? >> >>Thanks, >>Abraham >> >=20 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) >=20 > iD8DBQFC/2RoCt0ZF9kLPvYRAstoAJ9/ihBTodPdb2kyYzgaVPIuO3nJvgCdECS9 > wUCsVBdH5EsfmYUTsvCplqI=3D > =3D818N > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list