Per Qvindesland wrote: > 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. Thanks for your reply. I think I will follow your advice, and go with LDAP. I've been reading chapter 20 of "Linux Home Server HOWTO", "Shared Address Book (LDAP)", by Miles Brennan <brennan.id.au>, at <http://www.brennan.id.au/>. This seems to contain fairly explicit instructions for setting up LDAP and adding an address book. I'll contact you if I do meet any problems, thanks. > 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. >> >> -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
