I just installed a ldap address book last week, I will no go into the detail of how pain fule the configuration was, information in a simple human way is difficult to find but I would definetly recommend LDAP, since it is more (easy) to integrate into a email reader, by putting easy in brackets I do mean in brackets, evolution is not to bad but it does things in a really stupid way, I.E it don't remember the Manager password so the user that needs access to writing into the ldap needs to know it, do I suspect that you could get around it by creating a ldap user with write access to your tables, I have never tried mysql for only a address book but I would not recommend it since mysql is generally after my opinion slower and the email readers don't really support it, if you need some pointer let me know I am going to write my little how to at some stage now on how to set it up. Kind regards Per Qvindesland Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm thinking of setting up an address-book on my server, > but I'm not sure whether to use LDAP or MySQL. > > As I see it, LDAP is actually designed for this, > and seems to have a more-or-less standard address-book format. > On the other hand, I'm already using MySQL for several things, > eg gallery2. > > But there doesn't seem to be any standard address-book format > for SQL. > Another thing, kmail and other mail clients > seem to have standard LDAP interfaces. > > I don't really like LDAP, but it seems the way to go. > Is that right ... ? > I'd be interested to hear your views. > >
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