On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Eric Stadtherr wrote:

I agree with not relying solely on LDAP. Requiring LDAP for the local address book imposes yet another installation/configuration/maintenance/support requirement on the RoundCube administrator. Also, for people who are hosting RoundCube on third-part web servers, LDAP may not even be an option.

Having said that, LDAP is a very common directory service provider for many companies and I think we need to support LDAP seamlessly. Many e-mail clients (Thunderbird, Apple Mail) support read-only access to LDAP directories as a supplement to their local address book. I like this model, which is generally where RoundCube is headed right now. There are some things we could do to more fully support LDAP directories, some of which are in Tickets already:

On an aside, why do all these clients only support read-access to LDAP?  Seems like it would really great to be able to use LDAP in place of a local address book in all of your clients, but that's not a possibility if you can't write to it.

I don't get why it is only considered to be useful for reading from.  Something in the design of it?

I wish there was a standard way to replace local address books with a networked protocol, oh boy do I wish that.
 
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Mark Edwards