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

[Bryce Verdier <btv@cs.pdx.edu>]

 emerge -vp mozilla-thunderbird

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.6-r2  -debug +gnome 
+ipv6 +ldap -mozcalendar -moznoxft +truetype -xinerama -xprint 32,584 kB

You probably just needed to add the "+ldap" to your USE variable.

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Peter van Eck wrote:

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>Here is a problem that I've been facing for a while too ;-(
>
>Adding an LDAP server in Thunderbird, basically all Mozilla releases
>from 1.x.x. and up were giving the same result ..You add the LDAP server
>and it will not show up in the end.No errors or anything ..
>In my case the LDAP server in question is, Netscape's / Sun Iplanet..
>
>I tested on different machines with different versions of X and window
>managers...all on gentoo..same result..
>
>I ended up using Netscape 7.2 which did work ..
>
>Now I've recently installed the thunderbird-bin package from portage and
>guess what .. IT WORKS !!!
>
>I tried the source package ..and no luck.,..You would start to think
>that it is not compiled in building from source on gentoo.
>I did'nt look into it in detail though , so can't really make a
>statement on that..
>
>Just my experience with LDAP / Mozilla...
>
>rgds,
>
>Peter
>
>Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
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>>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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