[ALUG] LDAP Address Book

[Ben Francis]

Hi ALUG,

Does anyone use LDAP for their address book? I use IMAP for email and 
iCalendar/WebDAV for calendars so I can store them on a server and 
access them with multiple clients. I want to do the same with my address 
book.

I think the main problem is choosing a schema because different mail 
clients use different address book schemas. I currently have an address 
book in Thunderbird and an address book in my OS X Address Book which 
syncs with my phone. I want to combine the two but annoyingly, 
Thunderbird doesn't appear to import vCard address books and the CSV 
import is painful.

I'm also looking for a piece of web based address book software which 
can use LDAP as a back end, any recommendations? So far I've found Turba 
(http://www.horde.org/turba/), but Horde is a little bloated. I was 
hoping the Bongo Project (http://www.bongo-project.org) would support 
LDAP as a back end, but it doesn't yet.

Thank ye

Ben

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Ben Francis
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