Ow my head

[andrewducker]

I thought that having a centralised address book for my email would be handy.  So I looked into what Thunderbird supported, which was LDAP.  I then spent a few hours trying to work out how on earth LDAP worked.

And now I've given up, with a headache.

Can anyone point me towards a way of doing centralised addresses in a mail program?  Or how to set up LDAP in 5 easy steps?

Comments

[aberbotimue.livejournal.com]

ADAM

a microsoft application level LDAP directory..

or, Ad if you are running a MS server product..

What app were you using for LDAP anyway??

[andrewducker]

I downloaded ADAM.

Now, what do I do with it to store addresses in it?

I was using Mozilla Thunderbird (the email client).

[tigrrgrr.livejournal.com]

Love Thunderbird, but uh..yeah, me too with the address book thingy.

[douglasbryant.livejournal.com]

I use domino, so I also inherently use domino directory which is a ldap directory.
Using a server centrally to hold your address's, mail, calender is such a bad idea.
I can look at my info over the internet, syncronise with my pda, and or use a notes client, also my notepad on my pda is linked to a database that I made using a journal database in notes. Oh yes and you can lookup people with a mail program, and allow other users to do it too, with access rights or without if you wish.

[andrewducker]

Using a server centrally to hold your address's, mail, calender is such a bad idea.

Well, I'm already doing that with IMAP for my email. I synchronise my bookmarks against a central FTP repository too.

And my calendar is at http://calendar.yahoo.com/andrewducker

So it's really just my address book that's left. There must be a way of doing it...