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LDAP-Based Address Books for Win32?

Posted by Cliff on from the outlook-excluded dept.

Snafoo asks: "I'm trying to replace an Access-powered communal address book at my office with something cross-platform and (preferably) LDAP-powered. Unfortunately, I can't find a single email client for windows that would allow people to update the LDAP dB from their address-book interface except, the usual suspect, Outlook. I've tried Mozilla, Eudora, and a slew of other 'freebies', but they only allow browsing; at the moment, I'm considering dropping cygwin+XFree on the desktops of the windows clients and giving them access to Evolution on a central server (God bless Ximian!), however, most of the Win32 boxen are used by non-clueful sorts who would be put out by the inconvenience of what amounts to a second desktop. Aside from shelling out $90 a seat for WinAxe, or another rootless X server for Windows, what do you all recommend?" Those interested in X-Servers for Windows may wish to check out this previous article, however if you are using an X11 server not mentioned, please feel free to recommend others, here.

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  1. Why another desktop? by seanmeister · · Score: 3, Informative


    Couldn't you simply run Evo or whatever client in the X server WITHOUT running a window manager or desktop environment? Just pass it some window geometry and let it take up the entire X server display?

    1. Re:Why another desktop? by JabberWokky · · Score: 3, Informative
      Or just get a rootless X server, rather than XFree (which, afaik, and it's been awhile, doesn't do rootless on Windows). There are plenty available, most quite quite inexpensive per seat licensing.

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  2. Re:LDAP by OnyxRaven · · Score: 3, Informative

    I certainly agree. I am currently in a couple of projects now that have people across the country, across different platforms (Mac and Win2k mainly, but I use Linux at home often) and we want to be able to share a contact list for our media contacts. Right now there's no good way of doing it aside from a text listing we have on our website, which sucks in comparison to an LDAP server we could have running somewhere. This would reduce the confusion we have when we're updating the contacts list and not everyone has the contacts in their personal Outlook/Netscape/Lotus Notes/whatever contact lists.

    Any resources on this? I checked google to only small avail (though my query might have sucked).

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  3. Re:Pegasus? by david+duncan+scott · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looks like it does, yes. For sure you can query LDAP directories, but I'm less sure of being able to make changes to them.

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  4. SquirrelMail by pete-classic · · Score: 4, Informative

    SquirrelMail is a web-based IMAP client. Among its many features are . . . LDAP address book (RW).

    You could use this for adding addresses and using your IMAP server remotely, and use any other IMAP client(s) for all other purposes.

    -Peter

  5. rolodap by dead_penguin · · Score: 3, Informative

    I really like seeing a question asked when it's something that I'm in the process of figuring out for myself at that exact moment! ;)

    Rolodap looks very promising. I'm probably going to put it up this weekend if I get time.

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