On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:40 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:15 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > > > His confusion is very common...I admit that I too was confused by that > > > very notion when I first started mucking with LDAP. One would think that > > > if you use say OpenOffice to save say Test.DOC that Microsoft Word > > > should be able to open that file [1]. Likewise, since LDIF is the world > > > of LDAP, shouldn't one expect that an LDIF file exported by Kontact be > > > usable with openldap? > > > > Is there some reason that there isn't a standard schema shipped with the > > server that supplies what the clients in the distribution expect? > ---- > If I understand your term 'clients' to mean an address book client like > Kontact, I would venture to guess that Kontact like Evolution and all > other address book clients each has their own schema. If you are > decrying that all of the various address book clients all have differing > notions about schema's, then you should take that up with them. > > Most, if not all LDAP implementations include an inetOrgPerson schema > that is consistent because this is part of an RFC. Each of the address > book clients that I have looked at, use attributes that go beyond the > inetOrgPerson schema and that is what is really being discussed. > > Now if you are referring to something other than address book 'clients', > then you will have to be more specific. My own pre-conceived notion was this. I use Kaddressbook for our 1,500 contacts. I use Evolution for my pop-email account with gmail and am interested in getting everything talking to each other and my Windows using boss. I send him the addressbook.csv master file, then he tells me that he's added shit to it, and it all goes to hell. I have not been able to just import his edited copy without a ton of duplicates. So, hosting an ldap server, in my mind, would allow him to just add to the addressbook hosted here. Am I far off base in my expectations?? NOW he wants a comma delimited file of just the email addresses, so he can hit return and send one massive email spew to everyone on the list. Back when I had a list like that and in /etc/aliases I could just note the group to the file name and sendmail pounded out the emails. We're talking about 8 years ago. Guess how much I remember? <grins> So, all personal data in kaddressbook, I might handle the group emails from Evolution or not, or crank up sendmail or procmail to handle the mass mailings if I can coax out the email addresses, OR learn something new that I don't know. I took some time off away from Linux and the gap in what I knew then and what is there now is pretty significant. Thanks for your patience. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
