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

[Peter van Eck <peter@vaneckonline.net>]

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Excellent.. Never thought of or even looked in use.desc for a +ldap USE
flag...

That's it !! case solved :-)

thanks,

Peter


Bryce Verdier wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> b.
> 
> Peter van Eck wrote:
> 
> 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:
>  
> 
>>>> 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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