On 14 October 2014 22:00, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:

On 14/10/14 19:11, Jenny Hopkins wrote:

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Hullo,

I've set up an LDAP server for a client to share his address book between thunderbird (running on Ubuntu 14.04) and webmail. A new entry can be added manually from thunderbird, but there is no option to auto-add new addresses to any other address book than the thunderbird one. I've had a google goggle, and it seems I can't do anything about this - can anyone tell me I'm wrong and it is possible?

If not, are there any clients that will allow this option? This is a serious drawback.

I once spent ages trying to get LDAP to work to serve addresses to Thunderbird and got precisely nowhere, so you've got further than I did, but as I'd failed at that, I switched instead to Google.

I store all my contacts as google contacts. On thunderbird I installed gContactSync which seems to work well. It syncs all google contacts to Thunderbird, and imports all the groups too - e.g. CoWorkers. It syncs on startup and at definable intervals, or manually. It syncs both ways too, so you can add an entry to the thunderbird address book and it will sync to Google.

There are other address sync plug-ins, but this one worked best for me. Does that help? You didn't say which flavour of Webmail you're using. That may be pertinent. There may be a different thunderbird plugin, or you may be using google gmail without realising it - several providers do!

Not really, google not an option, but thanks for the reply anyway! The webmail client is roundcube, working with openLDAP and dovecot, that's all working fine. It's the thunderbird bit that is the problem.

Jenny