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Re: [LUG] More on Address Books and OpenLDAP



Peter Hatton wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > What are others doing to maintain company address books, or
> > has everyone gone Exchange these days *8-)
> 
> They probably have, however at Pfizer they had a LDAP interface to the
> Exchange address book - not sure if thats standard with Exchange or not.

It is standard, but not everyone wants to trust their mail
or address books to Exchange.

Of course with Win2000 all that changes, and they go in the
Active directory, which also has an LDAP interface.

But hey to run exchange I'd have to run NT, and I'm fairly
sure I don't want to do that.

There were some interesting muttering a few weeks back about
HP, who were dropping OpenMail, and some people wanted it
Open Sourced. OpenMail was a cross platform MTA, with
features like Exchange, but HP never promoted it much
(rumoured to be due to wishing not to tread on Microsoft's
territory despite OpenMail predating exchange IIRC, although
the overly complex administrative setup might have had
something to do with it's lack of market presence.).

Anyway cleaning up address book data is frightfully boring,
and LDIF contents vary widely, even the case of object names
seems to vary, thank goodness for "diff --ignore-case"

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