Moving Outlook/vCards to an LDAP Address Book?

T-Suit asks: "I'm looking for a way to move 1000+ vCards (the result of painful consolidation after going through our sales' team personal Outlook contacts) into OpenLDAP, so that we can access them from all plaftorms. I've looked at Dawn, but its LDIF export is too crufty for ldapadd and it doesn't solve the issue of how to update those records easily, so I'd also need some kind of 'master GU' to edit them remotely. Along the way, I must say I am amazed at the lack of good LDAP-only contact manager apps for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Besides Evolution (which behaves strangely for me and doesn't show all the fields Outlook entries have), all 'nice' 'shared address book' tools I see are limited, web-based or rely on a SQL database. LDAP Management apps (such as diradmin) allow me to edit all fields, but are not for casual users (or available on Windows). Any suggestions on how to both import and maintain this data?"

Comments

Outlook 2003 Business Contacts Manager

[Kenterlogic]

Yes, O2003 BCM should help you out here. I was "lucky" enough to get in on beta and though it was particularly buggy and slow (expected in a beta) it offered a lot of features including what you are looking for.

Sadly, you will have to wait a month or two and fork over a couple hundred bucks-- but it seems like you have those kind of resources.

Even Better,

[Sevn]

Have someone make you a webmin module that does this and be the hero that shares it with the world.

A little perl ought to do the trick

[uberhund2]

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Text::vCard;
use Net::LDAP;
# remainder left as an exercise for the poster.

Ruby-Solution

[datalife]

Hi,

I made a little ruby-script (my first!), which achieves something like that.
It's far from perfect, but works for me.
download it here

The archive containt a procmailrc, because i'm invoking it via an extra email-address. you will need ripmime

The script uses the vcard-Class from ruby-lang.org, which is included in the archive.