RE: [WinMac] Re: E-Mail System Research

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:02:23 -0400

At 12:52 PM 10/7/98 -0500, Ethan C. Banks wrote:
>Phillip, my concern with using LDAP as a directory is that we haven't found
>a client/server combination that creates an address book automagically for
>the user. There are several applications that offer a slick interface to
>LDAP, but I haven't run across anything that uses LDAP in the background to
>keep a more or less "centralized" address book that the user doesn't have to
>worry about.
>
>When our users compose an e-mail message, they want to pick recipients from
>a list, as opposed to the typical "query for the one you want & then add
>them to your local address book scheme" that seems prevalent at this time.
>If you are aware of an standards-based address book that works via LDAP (or
>possibly ACAP?) that allows the user to remain uninvolved in the cognitive
>process, I would indeed like to explore that avenue.

Netscape Communicator's Messenger Mailbox may be capable of doing this. In
the Directory section of preferences is says "When searching directories,
search for items using these directories in the following order:" then it
lists the Personal Address Book then all the public directory sites
(Four11, Bigfoot, etc.) If you added your ldap to the list and put it at
the top, perhaps it could work much like the Personal Address Book does. I
don't have an LDAP server to try it with (it sure won't work with the big
public ones).

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Curtis Wilcox           cwcx@cc.rochester.edu
Desktop Systems Consultant       716/274-1160
Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290


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