Re: [Fwd] LDAP

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Mills-Curran <bc...@cl...>
> -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:32:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bill Mills-Curran <bc...@cl...>
> To: Graham Barr <gb...@po...>
> Subject: LDAP
> 
> Graham,
> 
> Thanks for your work on LDAP.  It certainly will help me maintain my
> distance from MicroSoft products.  I have a question on the use of
> your software, particularly with pabber and plook...
> 
> I would like to be able to get lists longer than 75 entries.  I work
> for a large company, and there are more than 75 "Smith" entries in the
> Exchange address book.  Or, to be a bit more devious, I am tempted to
> extract the contents of the Exchange database.

The maximum number of results returned in a single LDAP search operation is
governed by the sizelimit parameter that you pass to the search method. Try
setting it to a larger value.

The LDAP server itself will also impose an upper bound on the maximum
number of results to return, so maybe Exchange really won't let you get
more than 75... In this case, you will have to refine your search filter to
get smaller chunks of the directory back...

I don't know of a way to access the raw Exchange database. Presumably it's
a proprietary Microsoft thing, so you could try some MS tools like Access
:-)

> Is there a way to handle this?
> 
> TIA,
> Bill
> 
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Cheers,

Chris