Justin is actually working on something a little different - querying public LDAP servers through a different interface (not the existing address book interface, which it sounds like Pieter wants).  I was working on global and personal LDAP address books for this purpose but I'm afraid it's been pushed to the bottom of my priority list due to work obligations.

Anil, I do have a bunch of backend code written if you are interested in helping with it (or taking it over).

-j

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 08:33 +0100, Thomas Bruederli wrote: 
Yes, there's already somebody working on it. You can contact Justin
<justin@babel.com.au> for further details and suggestions.

Regards,
Thomas

Anil wrote:
> If someone is developing it, let me know. Otherwise, this is something I
> am interested in and I could run
> with it.
> 
> Pieter wrote:
> 
>> This would usual be implemented using a LDAP directory. It is on the
>> roadmap, as far is I know.
>> I thought as well that somebody is already implementing this..?
>>
>> It would be a really good addition indeed! LDAP is currently the only
>> thing that holds me from a deployment for beta testing. (And the fact
>> it's alpha software...)
>>
>>
>> Mark Holmes schreef:
>>
>>> First of all I'd like to say that this is by far the best free / open
>>> source webmail app ever created. I think when it's finishd it will be
>>> the definition of perfection in every way. Great work.
>>>
>>> I have a suggestion for a feature or set of features. Basically these
>>> would be relating to setting this up in a company Intranet
>>> environment. I'm quite keen for staff to use a webmail system like
>>> this rather than traditional email clients. One thing that would be
>>> really handy for this would be global address book entries; that is
>>> address book entries that are controlled centrally by an
>>> administrator and can not be modified or deleted by each user. There
>>> may also be other features that would benefit that form of
>>> deployment. I'd be happy to develope these features myself but would
>>> fear that future updates may clash with my changes.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>




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