Re: [SM-PLUGINS] ldap address book question

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Bob Miller <bo...@co...> wrote:
> Good Day,
>
> I have been searching off and on all day for some current and definitive
> information regarding the usage of ldap address books in squirrelmail.
>
> Specifically, I have users who wish to have a common address book
> between multiple devices as IMAP makes mail common to all their devices.
> Given the system in place for these users, ldap would seem the most
> appropriate way to accomplish that, but I have come to learn that it may
> not be so easy.  Thunderbird supports no way for end-users to update an
> ldap address book, and I am starting to have doubts if squirrelmail can.
>
> According to http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-7.html#ss7.5 ldap
> address books are read-only.  Normally I would take this as definitive,
> but it references version 1.4.4; I don't know how old that is, and that
> tells me its old.  I am inspired to hope this documentation is not only
> out of date, but incorrect.

Have you tried adding a write-enabled LDAP address book server in
SquirrelMail version 1.5.2?  You can step through it using the
config/conf.pl script for starters, making sure to let it walk you
through the advanced settings.

> I also found http://daniel.marczisovszky.hu/projects/index.html which
> advertises a writable ldap address book for squirrelmail, but it appears
> it was last updated in 2006, and my attempt to install it did not
> provide enough (any) results to encourage me to keep trying.

I haven't looked at that, but if it worked with SM in 2006, it can
probably be updated to work now too.

> I wonder if anyone might point me at some plugin/documentation that says
> a user-editable ldap address book is possible, since I have clearly
> failed to find it.  Else, if anyone has tackled this problem before, I
> would be interested to hear about your methods and success...

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