[horde] Expose contact list's emails via LDAP?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Daniel Kraus <dk at doktorkraus.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering how to make use of Turba's contact lists feature with a
> non-Horde mail user agent (in this case, Thunderbird).
>
> I have Turba configured to use a global address book that is stored in
> an OpenLDAP directory. Thunderbird fetches addresses from the same LDAP
> directory. I can add contacts in Turba, and when I write a new e-mail in
> Thunderbird, the contact is automatically fetched with the type-ahead
> feature. Good.
>
> Contact lists that I create in Horde/Turba are also stored in the LDAP
> directory and are also retrieved by Thunderbird's type-head search.
> However, these contact lists have an empty email field, preventing me
> from actually sending the message.
>
> Can Turba store the contact list members' email addresses in the LDAP
> object's email field? It seems to me that this should be trivial -- when
> writing the contact list object to the LDAP directory, build a string of
> comma-separated e-mail addresses, and put it in the email field.
>
> Is it possible yet?

No, because group members are listed in a horde-specific ldap  
attribute. We cannot use the email attribute of the group object,  
because groups may also have an email address in Turba.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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