Thunderbird + LDAP Adress book

[tgra]

Dear Supporters,

We are for our company using Thunderbird. Is it possible to use Ebox and LDAP for the company address book?

How can we do this? Thank you!

Best regards,

Thomas, Norway.

[jcanfield]

Thomas,

This has been a request by other users [1]. Currently, ebox doesn't natively support an addressbook.  It would likely be an add-on module.  If you are familiar with LDAP, there is nothing stopping you from creating your own LDAP branch containing address book entries.

[1] http://forum.eboxplatform.com/index.php?topic=480.0

Regards,

Jim

[tgra]

OK. then I just wait until this is fixed in future releases. Thank you!

Thomas

[dmeireles]

I've been doing something like that. I've created a new OrganizationUnit in the ldap named abook (ou=abook,dc=ebox) and started adding objects to it (the "inetOrgPerson" type). First thing I had to do was relate each field of the thunderbird address book to it's corresponding ldap object type... Here's the list, made be me (you'll have to translate the thunderbird field names, since they are in portuguese)

inetOrgPerson

givenName = primeiro nome
sn = ultimo nome
cn = mostrar
ou = departamento

mail = correio electronico

telephoneNumber = telefone trabalho
homePhone = telefone casa
mobile = telefone movel

title = titulo profissional
departmentNumber = Nome de departamento
o = Organização
street = morada
l = cidade
st = Estado/Província
postal = codigo postal

description = notas

then, set up thunderbird to look for addresses in you ldap