[imp] Moving everything to LDAP and integrating with client software

[Syahrul Sazli Shaharir]

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Harry Hoffman wrote:

>    Now that we have IMP and other modules running here at the Uni. I've
> been asked to make all of the information stored on imp available to
> client programs (ie-> Outlook, Netscape, Simeon, etc.).  My initial
> inclination is to move personal address books to LDAP like our global
> address book. Is anyone else doing this?

I maintain one site with Horde+IMP&Turba preferences & global address book
in LDAP.

> Are they using the Horde LDAP schema, or another?

Preferences need the Horde LDAP schema, while the global address book
(Turba) doesn't: at minimum you can get by with the standard ones eg
inetOrgPerson. The way your global address book look up attributes are
highly configurable, see turba's sources.php.

> What about things like calendar info, bookmarks, tasks, and the like?

Never tried to store those in LDAP -- how do you plan to access those
using Outlook & Netscape anyway? (without using http:// of course).

>    While importing/exporting is currently available it's not really
> viewed as an option here because of the amount of user intervention
> needed.

Once you have everybody in LDAP (maintained by some other means) then you
don't need import/export function.

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