On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 08:42 -0700, Gordon wrote:
> Sent this from wrong address earlier, so whoever the list admin is, go
> ahead and delete the one that's in the queue.
>
> Anyone have any info on setting up an ldap addressbook that works with
> thunderbird? I'm new to ldap, but think I have openldap set up
> correctly...I can use phpldapadmin to get into it, but cannot seem to
> create mozilla.org addressbook type entries...I get this error: The
> attribute type specified is invalid. Wish it was a bit more specific.
> If I'm missing something, could someone please let me know? Or if anyone
> has/knows of any easy to follow tutorials (I've tried a few, but none
> I've found specifically relate to building an address book for tbird).
>
> I think I have the ldap server set up correctly because tbird asks me for
> a password when I look for an address.
> Thanks!
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I don't have specific info for Thunderbird but in general, every client
has their own concept of mapping their fields to ldap attributes.
Thunderbird is from Mozilla and their concept has roots from the
Netscape Directory Server and the schema necessary for mozilla clients
isn't part of openldap's core/cosine/inetOrgperson schema's. You would
have to find information on a mozillaPerson schema and then incorporate
it into openldap. I also remember seeing a post somewhere that
Mozilla/Thunderbird is contemplating changing their attribute mapping...
This is from openldap.org Dec 17th mail list
> > Can anyone tell me, how this structure should look like?
> > Which entries are needed so Thunderbird will show the record?
>
> The LDAP support in Thunderbird is currently a bit odd:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/ldap.html
>
> It should be fixed in the future (current on left / proposed on
> right):
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=166745&action=diff
>
>
Hope this helps
Craig
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