[horde] succesfully imported thunderbird.ldif file with contacts, now what ?

Vilius Šumskas vilius at lnk.lt
Tue Jul 12 16:34:04 UTC 2011


Sveiki,

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 1:13:01 PM, you wrote:

> Hello people,

> In regards to OpenLDAP and Horde; After a lot of tinkering, I succesfully
> managed to do the following :

> 1. run "ldap" daemon
> 2. export contacts.ldif file from thunderbird (which it (tb) had imported
> it previously from outlook 2000 sp3)
> 3. Managed to import the contacts.ldif file to the OpenLDAP server 
>    (ldapadd -x -h localhost -D blah.blah .. . ..)
> 4. OpenLDAP server told me that I succesfully imported them
> 5. Checked it by typing : 

>   ~>  ldapsearch -x -h localhost -b 'dc=abaxb2b,dc=gr' '(objectclass=*)'

>   . . . . (lots of entries here)

>   # search result
>   search: 2
>   result: 0 Success

>   # numResponses: 113
>   # numEntries: 112

> Indeed my contacts entries are 112.

> Now what do I do ?
> E.g. if I have a valid horde account, how can I import this data ?

You   don't   really   "import"   contacts data to Horde account. Just
configure Turba to use OpenLDAP in backends.local.php. And start using
it.

> How can I perform little changes to records so I can see (and be
> convinced) that it actually works properly ?

> Any ideas ? Pointers ?
> I have checked most of the google stuff, so please don't point me there.

> TIA,

> s.

-- 
Best regards,
 Vilius



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