[horde] HORDE/IMP + LDAP?

Jon Parise jon@csh.rit.edu
Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:37:48 -0500


On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:35:12PM +0100, Ray Jackson wrote:

> We are looking at using IMP as a web interface to our mail service here
> at CERN.  We are using UW IMAP, sendmail 8.11 with message routing via
> LDAP.  In fact we are trying to make LDAP the master source of data for
> all our messenging services.  So my question is... Is it possible to
> store all data required by IMP/HORDE on an LDAP server?  I don't really
> want to use a local database i.e. MySQL as all of our user profiles etc.
> are already on LDAP.  If it is possible to use only LDAP with IMP could
> somebody give me some pointers on how this is done.  I tried playing
> with IMP for a couple of days but without knowing what IMP is trying to
> do with LDAP i'm really stuck here.
 
This will be possible once the current development version of IMP
(version 2.3) is released.  We don't really have a date in mind for
that, though, but we're started to work toward its completion.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member