[Novalug] LDAP or Not? / How Populate LDAP Address Book?

[Rich Goodwin]

Thunderbird will export data as an LDIF (LDAP Data Interchange Format)
file.  This is what can be used at the command line to import into the
LDAP server (ldapadd command).  I believe you can then point Tbird to
use the DAP server for the addresses.  There would not be a need for
synch'ing in this scenario.  If you use other mail clients, then,
depending on the choice, you may still have an issue.

Rich

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:25 -0400, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> I'm moving to a new hosting service and this is an ideal time to 
> consider switching gears to LDAP. But, I don't know how to populate the 
> server-side address book! Looking for feedback on the following issues:
> 
> My email client is Thunderbird and I've hundreds of addresses in about 
> 20 different address books - maintained for different mailing lists / 
> purposes. So, LDAP is an appealing choice to help maintain address books 
> in the future.
> 
> I find only one means of (easily?) scyning existing T-bird address books 
> with an LDAP server: "Addressbooks Synchronizer,"
>     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2533
> 
> Any suggestions on how to synch address books?
> 
> I'm about to give-up on using LDAP with the hosting services 
> Squirrelmail implementation - LDAP doesn't seem to be implemented thereon.
> 
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